Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

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

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

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

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.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children will learn about the fascinating history of the automobile in America, dating all the way back to the 1700s.

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

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

E-mail is here to stay, but that doesn't mean kids shouldn't learn how to write a friendly letter.Teach your child how to write a letter to a friend.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

Readers will delight in this first (worst) day of school story, and practice cause and effect with this funny worksheet.

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

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.

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

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

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

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

Make reading practice fun with this reading comprehension packet, based on Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".

Have your movie lover read about the history of movies, and then test her reading comprehension as she arranges the events to complete a timeline.