Get ready for some active reading! As your students read through this passage, they will underline key words and reinforce their understanding of words in context.

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.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

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

Trace the steps behind a natural phenomenon with this third- through fifth-grade cause-and-effect reading worksheet!