Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

Introduce children to the highest-ranking female politician in the United States in this Learning About Nancy Pelosi worksheet.

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

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

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

During this activity, students will learn about Japan's capital city, Tokyo and create their own travel brochure.

Help students ask and answer questions as they gather information from other students.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool eel facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool lobster facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

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

Students will use sentence frames to cite quotes from nonfiction texts.

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool weedy seadragon facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African American jazz legends! Here’s a page on Thelonious Monk, the first name in the modern jazz movement.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool catfish facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

Here is a writing activity to review terms and concepts from the Civil War era. Your child will imagine being a soldier in the war and write a journal entry.

Hang out with two seriously challenged love birds, the god Cupid and his human girlfriend Psyche.

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

In this worksheet students will be challenged to compare and contrast the effects of different weather phenomena.

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Tap into your students’ creativity by challenging them to create an infographic using content from their reading!

Learn more about Julia Morgan, the woman who designed her way into California history, and also practice reading informational paragraphs.