Analyze the impact an author’s words can have on the meaning and tone of a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

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

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

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

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.

Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Children keep track of their weekday reading with this useful two-page template.

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

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Go on a camping adventure as you dive into this reading comprehension worksheet!

Use these questions to encourage critical thinking and support literacy development as students read the first few diary entries of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Searching for a worksheet to help with your kid's reading skills? This printable uses a classic Aesop Fable.

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

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

Facts about ostrich include that they are the largest birds in the world and that they can't fly, but that's not all. Learn all about this amazing bird!

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.

Beginning readers, enjoy this passage from Twain's classic "The Prince and the Pauper" and then complete some vocabulary and comprehension questions.

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

This open-ended reading reflection journal helps students to think about the books they've read.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Help your student with reading comprehension, and enjoy a favorite short story by Rudyard Kipling, about a King, a Queen and two quarreling butterflies.

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

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

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

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.