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

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.

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.

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Introduce your child to a fascinating new animal, the Baird's tapir. This is just one of many endangered species around the world.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Read this shortened version of the Momotaro story, then think about what makes a true hero, both in a fairytale and in real life.

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

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.

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

Your young historian can step back in time and read about an important battle that helped to end the American Revolution.

Have your movie lover read about the history of movies, and then test her reading comprehension as she arranges the events to complete a timeline.

How did our society become so advanced? Introduce your student to the Industrial Revolution with this reading sheet.

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

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

Make reading practice fun with this reading comprehension packet, based on Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".

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

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

Learn all about conflict in literature and how it makes the story possible in this conflict in literature worksheet.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

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

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

Batter up! It's time to get a hands-on history lesson in this fun printable activity that flexes your fourth-grader's memory and comprehension muscles

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

The Battle of Bunker Hill was one of the early battles of the American Revolution. Discover the important features of the battle with this worksheet.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

Get ready for Thanksgiving with this worksheet about Plymouth Colony, the Pilgrims' first home in America.