Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about soul music and the history of African-Americans in pop music, all in this Hip-Hop Music worksheet!

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony with this social studies worksheet!

In this worksheet, children discover what plastic is, how it is manufactured, as well as its history and about attempts to reduce plastic waste.

Help your third grader practice following directions on how to build a tornado in a bottle, and build his reading comprehension skills in the process.

In this fascinating worksheet, children learn about the history of chocolate, from its ancient ceremonial use to the invention of the chocolate candy bar.

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

Children read a brief history of fireworks, then answer a series of questions designed to help them reflect on what they have learned.

Children learn about the Moon, then practice finding and writing the main idea, in this literacy worksheet.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Children learn about the food cycle in a rain forest as they color in a scene of snakes, butterflies, leopards, and other forest-dwelling creatures.

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

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.

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

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

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.

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.