Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

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

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Use this graphic organizer to give students an opportunity to practice identifying the central idea of a text using key details.

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

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

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

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

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Help students boost their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills with this making inferences graphic organizer.

Students practice informational reading comprehension skills while learning all about the national artistic tradition of azulejo tiles!

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony with this social studies worksheet!

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

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

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

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

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

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

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons.