Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.

Learn all about hurricanes in this earth science Q&A.

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

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.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Give your young readers some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the beloved story of The Three Little Pigs! Students will consider protagonists, antagonists, and character dynamics with this version of the classic story.

Introduce children to physicist Albert Einstein — and a bit of theoretical physics — with this mini biography.

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

This Reader's Theater activity is festive Thanksgiving fun for the whole family!

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

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

Beginning readers, enjoy this passage from Twain's classic "The Prince and the Pauper" and then complete some vocabulary and comprehension questions.

Have you ever been the new kid? Well, maybe you can relate to the character’s point of view. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying the point of view of a text and explaining the character’s opinions.

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.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

This worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop-motion effects.

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

After reading the first few chapters of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with this two-page novel study guide!

Your kindergarteners can help decide what happened in the story by carefully looking at each image and reading the parts of the story.

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

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.

In this worksheet, children read a classic fable about a man and his son who get too much advice!