4th - 6th Grade Reading Resources : Page 8

Help students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

This worksheet gives kids the opportunity to compare and contrast two different versions of the Greek myth of Persephone.

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

It's time to find some rhymes! Help your budding poet learn to identify rhyme schemes in poetry with this worksheet.

Children learn about the food cycle in a rain forest as they color in a scene of snakes, butterflies, leopards, and other forest-dwelling creatures.

Children learn facts about dolphin's evolution, behavior, and physical traits in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool guitar facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

This composition prompt asks kids to consider one thing they can do and one thing they can stop doing this Earth Day.

Learn about Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, a Chinese-American suffragist, activist, and minister of the early 20th century with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.

Children learn about the history and legacy of Eatonville, Florida, one of the first all-black towns formed after the passage of the 13th Amendment.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions after students read chapters 1–6 of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. 

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Read about six epic April Fools' Day hoaxes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Prepare students for reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan by accessing and building background knowledge with this pre-reading activity!

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

These baseball rules for kids are a sneaky way to spice up study time.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.