Get to know John Coltrane, a jazz legend, with this music history worksheet! Read his mini-biography and answer some trivia.

Practice some hands-on storytelling with these shadow puppets, modeled after The Three Little Pigs.

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 1–8 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

Become a storyteller with this fun reading comprehension activity! Use your creativity to fill in the story where it's missing text.

Every living thing needs a home to survive! Many animals have unique and interesting ways of building their homes.

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

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.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

In this fun worksheet template, children compose a letter with an extra-special destination: the future!

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

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Discover the history of the Seminole tribe with this worksheet! This tribe, originally from Florida, has a rich culture.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

Use this resource to help your students identify and explain the problem in a passage using past tense verbs.

In this literacy worksheet, learners will read a classic fairy tale, then learn more about another character from the story.

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

Students will use an adjective word bank to help them identify statements of fact and opinion.

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

Rootin' tootin' cowboys, gather 'round to hear the legendary story of Pecos Bill! Read this tale with your child, and see if he can tell fact from fiction.

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Use this worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.

Learn more about the imposing tsunami with this worksheet about the science of tsunamis.

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

Differentiating between facts and opinions is a key fourth grade skill to master and is helpful in identifying the author’s purpose in a text. Use this activity to give your students extra practice differentiating between these two kinds of sentence

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Inference Making.

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.