Read this text about the Great Depression with your students as they build comprehension skills.

Guide your students through the process of looking for text evidence and making inferences about the setting in this excerpt from The Secret Garden.

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.

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

During this reading exercise, students will work in small groups to look at various sample passages and sort them based on firsthand or secondhand accounts.

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

Get your students thinking about themes as they compare and contrast two different picture books of their choice.

Here's a snapshot of the story of Orion. His tale makes for light reading and simple practice with story structure for kids.

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Is Washington, D.C. a U.S. state or a city? Find out about our nation's capital with this fun, informative history worksheet.

Your young historian can explore the Mohawk tribe. This Native American group played an important role in American history.

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet! 

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

Learn all about Galileo! Whether your kid is an aspiring scientist or just needs some reading practice, this Galileo biography worksheet hits the mark!

Learn more about this amazing artist in this printable biography when studying the fine arts or Black History Month.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool jellyfish facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

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

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Learn about these lush, diverse biomes and practice spotting their inhabitants.

Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

In this Court Cases worksheet, students read descriptions of five landmark decisions, then match them to their correct name.

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Take a historical tour of Spain, home of the Running of the Bulls! Learn all about this Spanish-speaking country's diverse regions, dialects, and traditions.

Support students’ comprehension and analysis of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders with these discussion questions for chapters 9-12.

Get students excited about reading by creating reading shields! This activity will prompt conversations about what students have read and want to read.

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

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.

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.