Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

After your students finish reading this story about Leo and how he overcomes his soccer injury, they will answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about the text.

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.

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Get ready to read! Set students up for success by showing them how to preview texts before reading. Young readers are challenged to predict what the book is about using the title and illustrations before diving into the story.

Is your child just learning how to cook? Help her learn the fundamentals of kitchen safety with this cheat-sheet.

Encourage thoughtful media consumption with this set of television show comprehension questions.

Children use their logic skills to look at the images and decide which of two statements describes each one best in this second grade literacy worksheet.

Use this resource to teach your students how to use introductory phrases as they cite text evidence in their answers.

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

In this worksheet, children read a classic fable about a man and his son who get too much advice!

In Aesop's classic fable, a tortoise and a hare race — but the winner may surprise you!

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Use this reading and writing worksheet to teach first and second grade students about Angela Davis and her life as an activist, writer, and scholar.