Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

As students begin to read independently, they may have questions about what they read. These questions should be encouraged! Have students record their questions about their reading or any unknown words on this graphic organizer.

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.

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

Read and analyze a classic example of historical fiction with this adapted excerpt from Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper!

In this worksheet, learners will refer to illustrations to make inferences about which of two lines of text is true.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

Help your beginning reader learn about phonetic spellings that show how to pronounce a word. In this activity, she'll match each word with its pronunciation.

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

Students will practice making inferences about the characters, setting, and events based on clues in the passage.

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

Here is a fresh and fruity way to learn a bit of life science. Sit down with your little one and teach them all the different parts of an apple!

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Test your child's reading comprehension with the story of "The Frog Prince"!

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the major themes and events from The Giver.

Prepare students for reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan by accessing and building background knowledge with this pre-reading activity!

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

Read this well-loved poem, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

Ever wonder how the plasma TV came to be? Read a brief history of the television with this ode to inventors.

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.