Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

Reading has so many benefits for kids, such as improving vocabulary and language skills and helping to develop imagination and concentration. Reading logs are a great way for you and your students to keep track of their reading throughout the week!

Good readers decode words as they read, giving them an ability to read fluently. Use this resource with your students to practice decoding by focusing on the beginning and end sounds in a word.

This passage will challenge your 3rd graders to think deeper into the text to strengthen their comprehension skills.

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

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

Children will read this Reader's Theater script, then answer questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

Help your child read deeper into a story by having him practice making inferences about what happened.

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.

Story webs organize a story into one main idea and several details. Help your second grader read the story, then analyze it using the story web.

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

With this Have Fun Reading Choice Board, budding bookworms can choose from a variety of engaging reading-based activities, from reading in a cozy blanket fort to drawing or acting out their favorite part of a story.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.