Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.

In this yummy exercise, students will differentiate between statements of fact and opinion as they read all about chocolate!

When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.

Do your students know the difference between Veterans Day, Memorial Day, and Labor Day? This reading comprehension worksheet will teach them about the similarities and differences of the holidays. First, they’ll read a passage that provides facts ab

This resource helps your EL students identify and explain charts, graphs, and diagrams.

Learn about these lush, diverse biomes and practice spotting their inhabitants.

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

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the "shot heard around the world" and began the American Revolution.

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

Explore a classic poem filled with imagination and wordplay with this third- and fourth-grade reading worksheet!

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

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

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when describing cause and effect.

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

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

This is a comprehension resource for students to record their questions before, during, and after they have read nonfiction text.

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

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