Use this awesome story mountain template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. Students will use this activity to organize their thoughts about the beginning, problem, climax, solution, and ending of a story.

Following instructions doesn't have to be boring. Start with a phrase. Then rearrange, add and delete words by following the directions very carefully.

Read the facts on Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the U.S., full of awesome animals and gigantic geysers.

It's important for students to understand how characters and the storyline are interconnected. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.

Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues 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.

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

These baseball rules for kids are a sneaky way to spice up study time.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, children read a fable of a man, a boy, and a donkey who are headed to market, and the advice they get along the way!

Every living thing needs a home to survive! Many animals have unique and interesting ways of building their homes.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Find out more about the role of rhythm in poetry with this worksheet that uses "Casey at the Bat" for practice.

Read this classic story by Rudyard Kipling with your students for basic reading comprehension practice. As they answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions, your students will prove that they understand what they read!

Build your learner's logical thinking skills by asking them to connect pictures that show what came first and what comes next.

Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed worksheet!

Your young historian can step back in time and read about an important battle that helped to end the American Revolution.

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Draw a picture for each line of this nursery rhyme favorite!

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

These pictures have a lot to say! The animals in this worksheet don't talkÃbut they can tell you a lot about what they're like by the way they look.

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

The Shoshone were an important Native American tribe. Your little historian will learn about the culture and history of this tribe.

This worksheet helps students learn from pictures and captions in nonfiction texts while also answering comprehension questions.

This worksheet will give your child some important reading comprehension practice that also combines imagination and the fun of drawing!

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the "shot heard around the world" and began the American Revolution.

Use this resource with your students to practice determining who is telling the story. Your students will also practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Fiction or nonfiction? Children are introduced to the concept of genre in this early literacy worksheet.