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This ELA-focused choice board is perfect for supporting independence and encouraging students to practice their reading skills, build reading fluency, and boost reading comprehension.

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

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

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page worksheet!

Dive into the world of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" with this reading comprehension page.

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

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

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

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

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

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from the Grimm Brothers' "The Golden Bird."

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

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

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

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

What’s all the buzz about beekeeping? Give students this four-page nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet to find out!

Support students’ inference skills with this targeted two-page reading worksheet. 

Prepare students for reading The Great Fire by facilitating a picture walk through the first chapters’ images, pictures, and maps.

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

After reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

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