This reading stamina chart can be used to help students track and increase the amount of time they can spend reading to themselves during independent reading.

Help your first grader learn about the different parts of a letter and the lost art of letter writing with this simple how-to worksheet.

Kids read a story about a puppy, then finish it by writing what they think will happen next.

Keeping a reading log is a great way to encourage your child to set goals and track their progress. Your students will build reading fluency and stamina by logging and graphing their reading time.

Test comprehension with this fairy tale jumble! Put "The Ugly Duckling" story scenes back in order.

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.

Introduce children to physicist Albert Einstein — and a bit of theoretical physics — with this mini biography.

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions after students read chapters 1–6 of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. 

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

In this fun worksheet template, children compose a letter with an extra-special destination: the future!

This Reader's Theater activity is festive Thanksgiving fun for the whole family!

In this worksheet, children read the story of Parks' act of passive resistance, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on why the boycott was successful, as well as why it inspired the support of so many people around the United States.

Your students will use their imaginations to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

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

Compare and contrast your traits with the character traits of other people.

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

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.

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

This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

Get your third grader familiar with basic poetry vocabulary in this diagram worksheet

If your budding reading is writing their first book report, help them nail down the plot with this quick review worksheet.