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.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

Practice those reading skills with the story of "The Three Little Pigs"! This classic tale provides a great starter for reading comprehension.

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.

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.

Use this fun story rollercoaster template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them consider these who, what, where, why, and how questions as they relate to the plot.

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.

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.

Help your students find the perfect book for their reading level! In this activity, students will use the five-finger rule to find books that aren't too easy or too hard, but rather just right!

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

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

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

Use this handy fluency checklist to help your students track their accuracy, expression, and pacing when reading to support comprehension!

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

The story is mixed up! Kids will have to look at the pictures and read the words to put the story back in order again.

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

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.

A coloring sheet for preschoolers and toddlers of the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme.

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.