This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

Children keep track of their weekday reading with this useful two-page template.

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

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

In this nonfiction biography, learn how Nikola Tesla invented key technologies that are still used today.

Let uncertainty about your poetry analysis skills fall away as you spring into this charming poem about the seasons!

Travel to the Land of the Munchkins in this Wizard of Oz worksheet, which focuses on story details and setting.

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

During this reading exercise, students will work in small groups to look at various sample passages and sort them based on firsthand or secondhand accounts.

As your students complete this reading comprehension exercise, they will learn about their lungs while practicing active reading skills.

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

Learners will practice identifying the theme of a story by reading a short passage and answering four comprehension questions.

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

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

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Students will compare two informational texts on the same topic using a Venn diagram.

Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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