When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

List your favorite movies that came out this summer, then write your very own reviews of the best—and maybe the worst!—of the bunch.

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.

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

Use this resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about a major historical event. Students will read a passage about the Tsunami of 2004 and determine the author’s viewpoint as they establish the

In Blarney: A Game of Deception, children learn about the legend of the Blarney Stone, along with the rules for a fun game where they must decide which player is lying!

Empress Wu Zetian ruled China when the western world was in the Dark Ages. This 2nd grade worksheet that balances history with reading comprehension skills.

For your budding environmentalist, here is an information sheet on a well-known endangered species, the Komodo dragon!

Get your students thinking about themes as they compare and contrast two different picture books of their choice.

Explore characters in literature by extracting clues from this paragraph about one of the main Secret Garden characters: Miss Mary Lennox.

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

Your child will learn about the history of music and the history of segregation in America with this Motown worksheet.

Introduce students to nonfiction genres in their school or local library!

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help learners analyze two characters from the book with this creative extension activity!

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Got time to rhyme? Check out this fun rhyme scheme worksheet with two laughable limericks.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

Children learn about George Washington Carver, who rose from slavery to become a leading agricultural pioneer, innovator, inventor, and educator, in this historical heroes worksheet.

Get ready for Thanksgiving with this worksheet about Plymouth Colony, the Pilgrims' first home in America.

Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

Did you know that Texas was once an independent country? Travel back in time to learn about the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence in 1836.

Main characters would be lost without their supporting characters! Use this reading comprehension worksheet to compare and contrast characters from classic novels using a graphic organizer and paragraph excerpts.

Guide your students through the process of looking for text evidence and making inferences about the setting in this excerpt from The Secret Garden.

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.