Use this simple organizer to help students track and record key ideas when reading and summarizing nonfiction texts.

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

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Read this well-loved poem, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

Find out all about the gorgeous mountains, delicious food and unusual national animals that make Peru such a unique and wonderful nation.

Readers will delight in this first (worst) day of school story, and practice cause and effect with this funny worksheet.

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

This Frankenstein worksheet is great for teaching kids about classic literature near Halloween. Use this Frankenstein worksheet with your child this October.

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

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

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

Young readers practice analyzing characters in a work of fiction with this five-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Read a one-page adaptation of the Japanese myth, “The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child” and answer a variety of eighth-grade comprehension questions!

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.

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Before reading Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk to Water, use these pre-reading prompts to engage students in a discussion about key story elements.

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.

Practice analyzing poetry with one of Emily Dickinson’s most popular poems!

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

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

Students will read the Bigfoot story and then answer questions about the reading.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

Students read all about seaweed and answer standards-based comprehension questions in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

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.

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!