Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

What type of change will you get? Use this resource with your students to compare and contrast chemical and physical reactions.

Use this worksheet to help your students analyze and talk about cause-and-effect text structure.

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

Help your growing reader understand characterization with this worksheet that asks her to identify the heroes and villains in the book she's reading.

Give your second grader's logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect.

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.

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

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

Build reading and vocabulary skills with a fun folktale coloring series! She'll color the illustrations and clip the five pages together to make a storybook.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Settings.

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

Geared toward second graders, this science worksheet has young scientists read about spiders and their webs and then demonstrate their nonfiction comprehension by filling in the diagram with the correct anatomical terms.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

What happened and why? Match the events in cause-and-effect pairs in this engaging reading comprehension worksheet!

These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.