Students read a two-page adaptation of the classic short story “The Open Window” by Saki and answer key reading comprehension questions!

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

In this seventh-grade ELA worksheet, students read a fascinating informational text about the history of kites and answer comprehension questions covering a variety of reading skills. 

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

Making a timeline is a good way to sort out a story's events. Double the challenge by having kids make The Hobbit timeline, one of the book and one of the film.

The Tain, formally known as Tain Bo Cuailnge, is an epic from early Irish literature. Read The Tain for kids in this worksheet, and learn about its characters.

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son.”

How is a train like a bird? Find out in this sixth-grade informational reading comprehension worksheet all about biomimicry!

Build your reading stamina and comprehension skills with this worksheet based on “Ashputtel,” the Grimm Brothers’ version of another famous fairy tale.

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 1–4 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

Use this original fiction story to give learners practice analyzing story elements, making inferences, and growing their vocabulary using context clues and word relationships.

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

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.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Introduce students to some wild and weird types of lightning with this fascinating reading comprehension worksheet!

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

Unravel a classic story from Greek mythology with this two-page reading comprehension worksheet for seventh and eighth-grade learners!

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.