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.

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

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.

This exercise will give your students practice reading a text, making a prediction, and citing text evidence to support it. They will use introductory phrases as they complete sentence frames to create strong evidence-based sentences.

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.

Students will practice making inferences about the characters, setting, and events based on clues in the passage.

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.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

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

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

This ELA-focused choice board is perfect for supporting independence and encouraging students to practice their reading skills, build reading fluency, and boost reading comprehension.

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

Folktales are a great way to get your child into reading, and to help them consider moral values as well!

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

Is your child just learning how to cook? Help her learn the fundamentals of kitchen safety with this cheat-sheet.

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

The Nez Perce is a Native American tribe in the Northwest U.S. This worksheet will hep your little learner to explore Native American history and culture.

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.

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.