In this poetry and listening skills online worksheet, students watch a YouTube video reading of the poem, "London" by William Blake. They enter the correct words in a cloze activity. They read an excerpt about the poem and answer the...

In this literature worksheet, 5th graders answer 18 questions based upon the book The Cay. There are five open-ended extension prompts as well, such as making a map of the cay.

Beginning English language speakers complete a worksheet with a partner. They ask each other the listed questions, enunciating well. There are some suggested answers provided in the second section. 

Early readers follow along as Lucy and her mother discuss why a bee is stuck in a flower then answer four reading comprehension questions. 

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a comet? Learn about the mysterious light that appears in the sky one night with a short reading passage and accompanying comprehension questions.

Guide your independent readers with this sheet containing five reading comprehension questions for pages 171-178 of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Deeper analysis is required to answer most of the provide questions. 

As the story unfolds and your class is introduced to George and Lennie, provide them with this short reading guide for chapter one. It addresses challenging vocabulary and any literary terms used in the section before asking learners to...

Students practice problem solving skills by asking questions and participating in a design challenge. In this asking questions lesson, students work in pairs to ask questions to design a solution for a difficult personal problem....

The engaging story Rain School is further explored in the third lesson of a larger unit that explicitly teaches close reading skills by answering questions whose answers can only be found inside the text. Through teacher...

Third graders answer text-dependent questions of the story Nasreen's Secret School both independently and then collaboratively through using the carousel of questions strategy. This plan is the seventh instructional activity in a...

Explicitly explained and delightfully detailed are two ways to describe this tenth lesson plan in a larger unit designed for the first few weeks of third grade. Learners continue to use and develop previously learned close reading...

The twelfth instructional activity of this unit builds on the skills developed in the previous instructional activity, as fourth graders continue their quest to become experts on colonial trade by listening to interviews with historical...

Voices from the past. Young scholars listen to a podcast interview with a historical re-enactor as they continue their research in the eleventh instructional activity of this unit on colonial trade. Applying their close reading skills,...

As a summative assessment for this unit on colonial trade, fourth graders listen to and read informational texts in order to demonstrate their ability to take notes, write summaries, and draw connections. Young scholars first listen as...

The Crusades sounds like a glamorous time period in the Middle Ages full of glory—but was it? Scholars find and review the truth of the Crusades' influence on the world through the resource. The study guides, separated individually by...

In this comprehension questions for Black Like Kyra White Like Me worksheet, students read the book then answer 20 comprehension questions about it.

In this comprehension questions for The Best Way to Play activity, students read the book, then answer 11 comprehension questions about the story about video games written by Bill Cosby.

In this comprehension questions for Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear worksheet, students read the book, then answer 12 comprehension questions

In this comprehension questions for Cousins worksheet, students read the book then answer 18 comprehension questions about it.

In this comprehension questions for The Story of the Three Kingdoms worksheet, students read the book by Walter Dean Myers, then answer 10 comprehension questions.

In this comprehension questions for Stitching Stars worksheet, students answer 30 comprehension questions after reading the book about quilts made by slaves in the 17-19th centuries.

In this comprehension questions for The Friendship worksheet, 5th graders read the book, then answer 8 comprehension questions.

In this comprehension questions for Tam's Slipper worksheet, students read the book then answer 9 comprehension questions about the story.

In this comprehension questions for The Treasure Hunt worksheet, students answer 10 comprehension questions after reading the book by Bill Cosby.