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

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

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

Students will read passages and compare the traits of two characters.

Children will read an excerpt from Stevenson's book, then respond to a reading comprehension and a creative writing prompt.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Using this worksheet template, students plan their work by filling out a plot diagram with their story's exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and climax.

Your little reader is sure to enjoy this selection from the children's classic, "The Secret Garden." Students will build their vocabulary and reading skills.

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

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

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

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

Making a timeline is a good way to sort out a story's events. Double the challenge by having kids make The Hobbit timeline, one of the book and one of the film.

The Tain, formally known as Tain Bo Cuailnge, is an epic from early Irish literature. Read The Tain for kids in this worksheet, and learn about its characters.

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

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

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

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

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

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

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons.

Help students boost their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills with this making inferences graphic organizer.

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.

Help students match information about text features together in this review worksheet!

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

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

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