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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

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

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!