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.

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point.

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

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades! 

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

Any kid studying the American Revolution will likely have to memorize this famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow!

In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners compare and contrast two poems, focusing on structure, tone, and literary devices used in each.

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

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored as one of the most important leaders in the civil rights movement. Give your fourth and fifth graders a chance to deepen their understanding of his life and legacy through this reader’s theater activity.

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

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

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

Engage in some sneaky warfare with the tale of the Trojan Horse, one of the most legendary Greek myths ever told.

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

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

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

Cleopatra ruled Egypt and conquered the hearts of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Read a mini-biography on this remarkable woman in history.

Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

Get swept up in this comprehensive worksheet about the awesome power of dust storms.

This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Children learn about the women's suffrage movement in the U.S., including key players and events, and how it contributed to the eventual passing of the 19th Amendment.

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Children learn about writer and poet Langston Hughes in this Historical Heroes: Langston Hughes worksheet.