Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

Use this fall-themed Reader’s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.

Young readers can build their comprehension skills as they read this passage from a children's classic, "The Story of Dr. Dolittle."

Young readers respond to the books they have completed with this versatile worksheet template.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Using this worksheet template, students plan their work by filling out a plot diagram with their story's exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and climax.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

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.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

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.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

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.

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

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.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

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.