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

Introduce learners to the American advocate Dorothea Dix with this three-page informational reading comprehension worksheet.

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 5–8 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

Beginning readers, enjoy this passage from Twain's classic "The Prince and the Pauper" and then complete some vocabulary and comprehension questions.

After reading the first few chapters of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with this two-page novel study guide!

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

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Embark on an adventure through the woods with the Mole, in this excerpt from Kenneth Grahame's charming book, The Wind in the Willows.

Children learn how the internet travels across the ocean through cables to create a giant, global information network in this engaging, hands-on worksheet.

Practice analyzing poetry with one of Emily Dickinson’s most popular poems!

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

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions after students read chapters 1–6 of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. 

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

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.

Introduce readers to the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Children to identify the theme of a story from the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of Indian animal fables.

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 1–4 of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. 

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

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

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

Analyze different points of views and perspectives in a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

Analyze the impact an author’s words can have on the meaning and tone of a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

Help students reflect on chapters 1–4 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

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