Reading Comprehension
Ensure that your high-school students have mastered reading comprehension. Our most popular printables, activities, and lessons on reading comprehension will complement your classroom instruction. From identifying story elements to comprehension questions, there are plenty of fun and educational resources to choose. Find tips on writing research papers, enrichment activities for books, rubrics for scoring assignments and essays, independent reading guides, glossary of literary terms, cross-curricular activities for social studies and science, and much more! No matter how skilled your students are at reading comprehension, there's always room for improvement. These resources will help your class prepare themselves for difficult high school and college courses.

Popular Reading Comprehension Resources, Grades 9-12
- Questions Before, During, and After Reading
- Activating Prior Knowledge
- "The Monkey's Paw" Short Story & Activities
- Who Am I? – Character Description
- Story Elements
- Inferences
- Reading Comprehension Sequence Chain
- Five Elements of a Plot
- Scoring Rubric: Literary Analysis/Interpretation
- Make a Giving Tree
- "The Fox and the Goat": A Lesson on Aesop's Fable
- Story Pyramid
- The Herringbone: Main Idea and Supporting Details
- Asking Questions When Reading
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- Rachel Carson: The Coming of a Silent Spring
- Steps in a Process
- Character Chart
- Problem and Solution 2
- Independent Reading Guide: Short Story
- Framework for Questions Before, During, and After Reading
- A Map to Organization
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Lesson Plans
Sequencing Lesson Plan for The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Present this Common Core-aligned lesson plan for the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar to help students practice story se... -
Graphic Organizers
Five Elements of a Plot
Five elements of a story's plot (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution) provide the struct... -
Graphic Organizers
Reading Comprehension Sequence Chain
This detail-oriented graphic organizer helps students strengthen reading comprehension by identifying important story el... -
Graphic Organizers
Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer
An essential graphic organizer for all ELA classes! are asked to identify cause and effect of a story with this graphi... -
Graphic Organizers
English Language Arts Choice Board: Middle School Short Stories
This resource contains three different choice boards that align with “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, “The F... -
Teaching Resource
A Guide to Using Graphic Novels
Graphic novels are increasing in popularity, and students find them engaging and fun to read. -
Book Guides
Savvy Discussion Guide
This printable literature guide to Savvy, a novel by Ingrid Law, includes pre-reading points, discussion questions, and ... -
Activities
Black History Month: Modern Influencers – Reading Comprehension Activities
Celebrate Black History Month and inspire your students with this reading comprehension packet featuring five influentia... -
Activities
Valentine’s Day Reading Comprehension Activities
This Valentine's Day, introduce your students to enduring romantic stories through time with these Valentine’s Day rea...