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

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.

Young historians learn about four pioneering female scientists as they hone their research skills in this Who Am I? Women in Science worksheet.

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.

Children read a classic fable with an eye toward character analysis in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.

Children will practice using a text to create a timeline in this engaging worksheet.

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

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

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.

In this worksheet, students learn how the Sit-In movement began, and the impact it had on both the region and the country.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when using description.

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.

Use this worksheet to help your students practice identifying adverbs, read fluently, and demonstrate their reading comprehension.

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

Get to know John Coltrane, a jazz legend, with this music history worksheet! Read his mini-biography and answer some trivia.

Kids compare and contrast two famous fairy tales with a Venn diagram in this worksheet.

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

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.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool violin facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

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

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.

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

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

Here's a snapshot of the story of Orion. His tale makes for light reading and simple practice with story structure for kids.

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.