In this worksheet, kids will learn about the author's perspective, an essential component of nonfiction comprehension.

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African-American jazz legend Charlie Parker!

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

Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.

Young historians will practice writing essays and get a great reading comprehension workout with this worksheet about the famous Chinese explorer Zheng He.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

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

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

Meet Narcissus, a handsome and self-centered demi-god who stars in his own tragic Greek myth.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

In this Court Cases worksheet, students read descriptions of five landmark decisions, then match them to their correct name.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Children learn about Susan B. Anthony, an abolitionist and civil rights advocate best remembered for her contributions to the women's suffrage movement.

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

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

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the eighth and final part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Your students will be amazed to learn about different types of fungus in this nonfiction reading exercise!

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.

A reading comprehension assignment with monsters and a wickedly complex labryinth? Yes, please!

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

The history of Valentine's Day is full of theories about how the holiday began. Read about the history of Valentine's Day with this exercise and activity.

Science fiction is a hugely popular genre of books, movies and TV shows. Read this worksheet to get a taste of some of the originators of sci-fi.

Your budding historian can learn about the Buffalo Soldiers, the first African American military troops to serve in peacetime.

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for parts 5-7 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Making inferences using visual clues takes practice! Use this worksheet to help analyze visual elements.

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.