Reading Worksheets : Page 29

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Celebrate the contributions of famous Irish Americans with this worksheet. Read a bit about each famous figure and complete a comprehension exercise.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

Explore characters in literature by extracting clues from this paragraph about one of the main Secret Garden characters: Miss Mary Lennox.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African-American jazz legend Charlie Parker!

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

A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

Feel inspired to move to the beat with our reading comprehension exercise about Mexican music. Kids answer questions about the article in this writing worksheet.

Use this ocean-themed worksheet to measure your students' understanding of simple nonfiction text features. Your little bookworm will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about the whole book.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, children read a fable of a man, a boy, and a donkey who are headed to market, and the advice they get along the way!

After reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, have students reflect on the novel and record their responses to these post-reading writing prompts!

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

Get geared up for the Olympics with this fun reading worksheet about the first modern Olympic games, held in -- where else? -- Greece in 1896.

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

After reading The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, complete this comprehension page to test your understanding of the story.

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

After completing the novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts! 

Ancient mariners mistook the manatee for a mermaid! Your young biologist won't make the same mistake after learning about the manatee with this worksheet.

Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Enjoy the story of "The Princess and the Pea" with your beginning reader. Use this story as a starter for literary activities.

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

Animal lovers, get acquainted with a very unique species, the okapi! Read this info-sheet to learn about why this animal is endangered.

Count the syllables in the limericks in this poetry worksheet!

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

Review Civil War key terms and people with this history sheet. Your child will decide which terms describe the Confederacy and which describe the Union.

Have your movie lover read about the history of movies, and then test her reading comprehension as she arranges the events to complete a timeline.