During this activity, students will learn about Japan's capital city, Tokyo and create their own travel brochure.

Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.

Young historians will practice writing essays and get a great reading comprehension workout with this worksheet about the famous Chinese explorer Zheng He.

Venn diagrams aren't just a math tool; they make great charts for reading comprehension too!

One of the most popular genres is fiction. Learn what this genre is, who some of its most famous authors are, and try to write some yourself!

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Who is telling the story? Words like I, me, she, and he can help figure this out! Use this exercise with your students to practice determining who is telling the story.

Encourage thoughtful discussion after students read chapters 19–23 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games with this helpful discussion guide! 

What is going to happen next in this story? Become a storyteller with this fun comprehension worksheet!

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 12–15 and the epilogue of William Kamkwamba’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

Familiarity with different types of texts is an important part of the first grade reading curriculum. In this worksheet, kids read Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Caterpillar" and then answer questions about what they read.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

Draw a picture of the beginning, middle, and end of this well-loved poem.

Meet Narcissus, a handsome and self-centered demi-god who stars in his own tragic Greek myth.

Your child can learn about the last manned space flight with this worksheet that works on history, reading comprenshion and science all in one.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

Use this Valentine's Day reader's theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

Kids love to observe what people look like and what they wear. Turn this curiosity into a fun game to help with pre-reading skills.

The Humpty Dumpty story cards are mixed up and don’t make sense. Ask your students to solve this case by cutting the cards out and putting them in order from beginning, to the middle, and the end.

After completing the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, students demonstrate their understanding of the novel with these post-reading response prompts.

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