Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

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

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

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

This graphic organizer can help students analyze a story, scenario, disagreement or controversy from multiple perspectives.

Unwrap the history behind a spooky Halloween favorite: mummies! With this reading worksheet, your child will learn all about mummies.

With this reading worksheet, your students will read about basketball player Steph Curry and then write three inferences.

Explore the major themes of your reading assignment by making a book poster. Don't forget the tagline!

Your budding historian can learn about the Buffalo Soldiers, the first African American military troops to serve in peacetime.

Students will identify the author’s purpose and strengthen their reading comprehension with the questions that follow the text.

Students practice comparing and contrasting two versions of the same piece of text—written and audio/visual—with this graphic organizer!

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Children read a brief biography of world renowned opera singer Marian Anderson, then answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

Introduce children to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th century writer, poet, and philosopher, in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Young historians will practice writing essays and get a great reading comprehension workout with this worksheet about the famous Chinese explorer Zheng He.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Help your young reader learn to identify themes with the Panchatantra story "The Broken Pot" a classic fable from India that has a moral lesson.

Making inferences using visual clues takes practice! Use this worksheet to help analyze visual elements.

Submerge yourself in the fascinating history of submarines! Your little inventor will get a taste of the early stages of this important technology.

Paraphrasing is an important writing skill. With this worksheet, your student will learn some history as he practices paraphrasing.

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

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

After reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, students compare the movie adaptation to the written story.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

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

The Battle of Camden was a low point for the American forces in the Revolutionary War. Discover the errors made at the battle in this worksheet.

Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.