Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

How many Z's does Fuzzy Wuzzy have in his tongue twister? Kids find and count each letter Z in the silly poem on this kindergarten reading worksheet.

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.

Get a great introduction to one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies, Romeo and Juliet. This abridged version is perfect for young readers.

Show kids how to sort fact from fiction with this worksheet.

Have your little monkey learn this nursery rhyme through repetition!

How well do you know your country's past presidents? Here is a challenging series of match-up games, featuring U.S. presidents!

It's always perfect weather for writing poems! Engage students in writing poetry with this fun activity. Go outside and start thinking creatively!

During this reading exercise, students will work in small groups to look at various sample passages and sort them based on firsthand or secondhand accounts.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

We all want to learn new skills! This worksheet engages students in thinking about what they’d like to learn to do or make, all while learning about nonfiction texts.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Help students ask and answer questions as they gather information from other students.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

These pictures have a lot to say! The animals in this worksheet don't talkÃbut they can tell you a lot about what they're like by the way they look.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Barbara Jordan was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress from the South, and was an inspiration to all involved in American politics.

Identify three facts from a work of nonfiction, then draw a picture and write a caption for each.

Use this resource to organize questions in diagram boxes about a text or topic.