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

After reading the last sections of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with these questions!

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

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

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they distinguish their own viewpoint from those of characters in a fiction text.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

Meet Charles Darwin, the man responsible for the theory of evolution and many other revolutionary scientific discoveries.

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.

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

To deepen your students’ understanding of dramas, have them utilize their understanding of the key terms to compare and contrast dramas to other genres. They will use information found in a Venn diagram to complete a paragraph frame.

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the author’s use of language and literary devices in this literary response worksheet.

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

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.

After reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, students compare the movie adaptation to the written story.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

Use this All About Misty Copeland Reader to help early readers learn about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal ballerina with the American Ballet Theater.

Everyone loves this silly classic! Read the poem, then answer a question at the end.

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

This worksheet helps introduce students to detail reading through a nursery rhyme.

Learn about one of the most famous composers (and one of the first musicians to be known by only one name), Ludwig van Beethoven, in this biography of his life.

Students learn to observe small details in text through repetition and the nursery rhyme, "The House that Jack Built."

Although most people communicate through the internet these days, writing a letter is an important skill to know!

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

Help your kindergarten students identify the main topic and key ideas in nonfiction texts using this fun pet-themed worksheet.

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!