Build your students' emotional literacy with this handy emotion word bank! This resource provides students with visuals and a variety of emotion synonyms to increase their understanding of character traits in fictional text.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

The story is mixed up! Kids will have to look at the pictures and read the words to put the story back in order again.

Get reading going with your own Three Billy Goats Gruff story booklet.

In this historical heroes worksheet, children are introduced to Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to help found Tuskegee University and advocate for the educational and civl rights of fellow African Americans.

Readers practice describing fictional characters using their own words with this graphic organizer template.

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

Celebrate the contributions of famous Irish Americans with this worksheet. Read a bit about each famous figure and complete a comprehension exercise.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

Feel inspired to move to the beat with our reading comprehension exercise about Mexican music. Kids answer questions about the article in this writing worksheet.

Use this ocean-themed worksheet to measure your students' understanding of simple nonfiction text features. Your little bookworm will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about the whole book.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, children read a fable of a man, a boy, and a donkey who are headed to market, and the advice they get along the way!

Get geared up for the Olympics with this fun reading worksheet about the first modern Olympic games, held in -- where else? -- Greece in 1896.

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

After reading The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, complete this comprehension page to test your understanding of the story.

Ancient mariners mistook the manatee for a mermaid! Your young biologist won't make the same mistake after learning about the manatee with this worksheet.

Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Enjoy the story of "The Princess and the Pea" with your beginning reader. Use this story as a starter for literary activities.

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

Count the syllables in the limericks in this poetry worksheet!

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Travel to the Land of the Munchkins in this Wizard of Oz worksheet, which focuses on story details and setting.