Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Got a curious kid at home? Help him discover more about the kangaroo, the national animal of Australia and a favorite of zoo-goers everywhere.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

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

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

Discover more about the dingo, a type of wild dog that lives in Australia, in this worksheet.

Use this stop and jot reflection activity to assess reading comprehension. Your students will choose their favorite response to their reading and explain their choice.

Children look at a picture, then decide what should happen next, in this fun early literacy worksheet.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Children look at a picture, then decide what should happen next, in this fun early literacy worksheet.

What's a wombat? If you've got a kid learning life science, give her a fun introduction to animals with these wombat facts..

Use this worksheet to learn Cassowary facts, and introduce your child to an exotic species of bird from Down Under.

If your child prefers scaly and slithery to soft and fluffy, here's a worksheet on the goanna, a large lizard that lives in Australia.

Historic novels are rich sources of reading practice and this graphic organizer is a nod to prairie classics like those written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Students will read and answer questions about the Bradley family's summer vacation. 

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

Finding the main idea of a story is a fundamental reading comprehension skill. Help your child tackle reading with this beginner's worksheet!

Read Aesop's classic fable, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

Practice identifying elements of a story in this simple sorting activity!

In this worksheet, children discover what plastic is, how it is manufactured, as well as its history and about attempts to reduce plastic waste.

In this reading fluency worksheet, second and third graders read a story about a sleepy sloth, then answer simple reading comprehension questions.

Bring the zoo to your home with this adjective identification worksheet!

Help your third grader practice following directions on how to build a tornado in a bottle, and build his reading comprehension skills in the process.

Help your beginning reader boost her reading comprehension by figuring out what happened next in three different story lines.

Children read a brief history of fireworks, then answer a series of questions designed to help them reflect on what they have learned.

Help your child understand cause and effect with this practice sheet.

This picture story is all mixed up! Use this worksheet to teach your students how to put plot events in order.