Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

Help students match information about text features together in this review worksheet!

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

Children keep track of their weekday reading with this useful two-page template.

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

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

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

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

Children put their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution to the test with this simple quiz!

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

Young readers practice analyzing characters in a work of fiction with this five-page reading comprehension worksheet.

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

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

Introduce children to physicist Albert Einstein — and a bit of theoretical physics — with this mini biography.

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

In this worksheet, children read the story of Parks' act of passive resistance, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on why the boycott was successful, as well as why it inspired the support of so many people around the United States.

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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.

This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

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

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

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they describe characters, settings, and events in detail, using specific details from the text.

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

Use this worksheet to help your students understand patriotic songs, like an older national anthem.

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

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

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