Paraphrasing is an important writing skill. With this worksheet, your student will learn some history as he practices paraphrasing.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Children contemplate an age-old question as they spot the uppercase and lowercase C's in this fun literacy worksheet.

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

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

Children use their critical thinking skills to make predictions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

List your favorite movies that came out this summer, then write your very own reviews of the best—and maybe the worst!—of the bunch.

Help your student's reading comprehension with this short story and clarification questions.

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.

Students can read the origin of the strange creature known as Beast of Bray Road and decide whether or not they believe the stories.

Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

Read through this version of The Crane Wife and answer comprehension questions along the way.

When in Rome, what should visitors do? Let your students become a tour guide to Rome, the historic city in Italy, with this travel brochure activity.

Mary, Queen of Scots, was a fascinating woman in history. Learn a bit more about her life with this history worksheet.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

How do events change characters in the story, or the story itself? Use this worksheet to review the concept of cause and effect.

Read about the taiga's climate and inhabitants, then complete a brief summary to reinforce what you've learned.

Fill in this story map to organize the details of the Jack and the Beanstalk story.

Learn about the grasslands biome, then use your knowledge to unscramble the missing words of the paragraph that follows.

Enjoy part four of this five-part series of the Russian folk tale, Teremok! Your child will get to color and build her reading skills.

Procedural texts are a great way to engage students in reading nonfiction. This worksheet has students writing their own how-to texts.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Students learn how to identify and locate text features with this informational writing worksheet.

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet!