An excerpt from Willa Cather's O Pioneer's! provides learners with practice in finding the main idea and supporting details in a narrative. As readers record the bleak details on the included graphic organizer, they can conclude that...

Using a paragraph from Jack London's Call of the Wild, readers demonstrate their ability to identify the main idea and supporting ideas in a passage.

Spots the barn cat is the subject of this colorful worksheet. Young learners demonstrate their ability to identify the main idea in a written passage by reading a short passage about Spots and responding to the prompt asking them to...

The Iditarod Trail and the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race are the focus of a comprehension assessment. Readers must identify the main idea of the passage, draw inferences, define words using context clues, and identify the organizational...

Master a well-organized thesis statement with a short activity for a persuasive writing unit. Young writers read five different introductory paragraphs about various topics, find the main ideas addressed in each thesis statement, and jot...

Practice printing, matching, tracing, cutting, coloring, and more with a packet full of penguins! Allow these perky winter animals to help your kids out as they work on these skills.

In this main idea activity, students read about main idea and then match main ideas to topics. Students match 10 main ideas to their topics.

Come December, practice syllable counting with the appropriate time of year! Using the winter theme, readers identify the winter picture, clap the number of syllables, and place the correct number of cotton balls next to the four...

Read about the ways that different cultures set up homes with a set of reading activities. Learners read short paragraphs that cover one or more different ideas, and answer four questions about what they have read, including whether or...

In this second grade language art topic sentences worksheet, student read short paragraphs and pick the best topic sentence for each one.

In this main idea activity, students answer multiple choice questions about the themes of different passages they read. Students complete 10 questions total.

In this writing paragraphs learning exercise, students review the importance of a clear main idea within a paragraph. Students practice defining a clear main idea by using the ideas in the idea box and matching them with the list of...

Explore the impact of wildfires with a reading passage about ecosystems. Pupils read the passage and respond to five questions related to the content of the text.

Check students' understanding of A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale, the clever spin-off that borrows characters and ideas from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Plenty of detailed questions keep scholars on their toes. Answers...

Looking for a set of resources to compliment a reading of The Mitten by Jan Brett? A fun winter resource has everything from story sequencing and writing prompts to a parts of speech sort and a mitten flap book. The activities are great...

Does the fastest one always win the race? Look deeper into The Tortoise and the Hare with a set of discussion questions for before, during, and after reading the story.

For this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Tunisia. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.

In this organizational chart worksheet, students complete a bubble map for ideas on the winter holidays. Students write or draw for things they see in winter.

In this grammar worksheet, students practice combining several short sentences in fifteen groups of sentences into one effective simple or complex sentence.

A thorough lesson plan takes your first grade class through Jane Yolen's beautiful Owl Moon. It crafts the unit with clear objectives, high-level guiding questions, cloze activities and sentence frames, and extension...

In this counting leaves worksheet, students assist EarTwiggle in counting all the leaves found within a piece of art and then place their answer in the box provided at the lower right hand corner.

Copy all pages to create a book of poems during a poetry study. From alliteration to cinquain to acrostic poem, your class won't run out of templates for writing poems! Each sheet serves as a template for an entire book of poems. Other...

In this printing and coloring activity, students trace one dotted example of the word "Snowman" in Zaner-Bloser printing. Students write this word on their own on the lines and color a picture of a snowman.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a short passage entitled, "Fixing the Roof", answer 7 multiple choice questions, fill in 6 blanks with vocabulary words and answer 1 question with a paragraph.