Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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

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

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

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

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

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

Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

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

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

Read about the history of the Winchester Mystery House, and then answer some comprehension questions.

Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by reading about the holiday’s history and imagery!

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

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

In this nonfiction biography, learn how Nikola Tesla invented key technologies that are still used today.

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

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

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

Compare and contrast your traits with the character traits of other people.