Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

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

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Get your feet wet with this one-page reading comprehension worksheet on the challenging sport of artistic swimming!

Practice analyzing characters with this worksheet that features an excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. 

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son.”

Unravel a classic story from Greek mythology with this two-page reading comprehension worksheet for seventh and eighth-grade learners!

Students read an original two-page story and answer questions to boost essential reading comprehension skills.

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

Young readers practice analyzing characters in a work of fiction with this five-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

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

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.

What does it all mean? In this sixth-grade worksheet, students will practice using text evidence to identify the theme of a story they've read recently.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of jazz music, and the history of African-Americans in pop music.

Introduce learners to three inspiring indigenous women with this four-page reading comprehension worksheet!

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

Ever wonder how the plasma TV came to be? Read a brief history of the television with this ode to inventors.

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

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

Learn all about the history of candles with this two-page nonfiction reading worksheet!

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

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Children put their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution to the test with this simple quiz!

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

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.