Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

Help your students learn to analyze characters in literature with the help of this graphic organizer.

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

Students practice essential reading comprehension skills in this worksheet that features a passage about a boy who takes hang gliding lessons and becomes airborne for the first time.

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. 

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

Dig deep into the geography of Chile while practicing important informational reading comprehension skills with this middle school worksheet!

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

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

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

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

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

Meet the red wolf, an endangered species of animal that was once very common, but in the past 50 year nearly became extinct!

Students will read passages and compare the traits of two characters.

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

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.

Inspire middle-grade learners with this biography of Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space!

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

Before reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, use this pre-reading activity to get readers thinking about one of the major themes in the novel: stereotypes.

Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.

Learn about invasive species—non-native species that cause harm to native ecosystems—with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Students read a two-page adaptation of "The Gift of the Magi" and dig deep into the figurative language and literary devices of this classic story!

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

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–5 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.