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.

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.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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.

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.

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

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

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Help young readers make inferences using context clues with this worksheet.

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

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

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

Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

In this exercise, students will work through a series of steps to identify the theme of a classic story.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Students will practice using pronouns to support their understanding of point of view.

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

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

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

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.