This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Is the tale of Johnny Appleseed fact or fiction? Perhaps it's a bit of both! Introduce your child to a famous figure from a classic tall tale.

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

In this exercise, EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

This four-page worksheet gives students a chance to engage deeply with a rigorous nonfiction text about government funding for space exploration.

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.

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

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Children put their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution to the test with this simple quiz!

Help your writing sing with personification! Practice identifying the different examples of personification in this poem by Emily Dickinson.

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

Get to know the White House and the U.S. Capitol in this social studies matching worksheet!

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

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

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

Read this classic children's story — then stage a stick puppet performance of it!

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–5 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

What do you know about the wonderful country of Guatemala? Find out how the country got its name and what the people like to do for fun!

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

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.

Familiarize your child with Peter Pan, one of the most enduring characters of children's literature, with this reading comprehension worksheet.

With this Have Fun Reading Choice Board, budding bookworms can choose from a variety of engaging reading-based activities, from reading in a cozy blanket fort to drawing or acting out their favorite part of a story.