Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. In this activity, students write a summary—in speech form!—of a book that they read. For added fun, have them give their speeches to a partner—or even the whole class!

Help students prepare for reader’s workshop by picking books to read independently. Students will choose three books that look appealing and read one page. If there are five or less words that are tricky to read, they've found a book that is just right!

Why is the math book so sad? It has too many problems! Help your students bring puns to life by having them create visuals to represent the play on words. Kids will have a blast reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

In this historical heroes worksheet, children are introduced to Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to help found Tuskegee University and advocate for the educational and civl rights of fellow African Americans.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Read some dark excerpts from the famous forefathers of horror writing and try your hand at it.

In this exercise, your scholars will form and use regular plural nouns.

Use this sample paragraph and outline to help students write their own informational paragraphs.

Help students cover proper punctuation, capital letters, grammar and spelling with this editing checklist as they edit their peer's work.

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

Your budding writer can review the parts of speech with this worksheet on sentence diagrams. He'll get a better grasp on sentence structure as he goes.

How does this paragraph start? Learn to read for context clues and use inference with this worksheet on topic sentences!

Assess your students’ knowledge of comparative and superlative adjectives.

This construction zone is all about building words! Sound out the word to help you spell it out.

Home is where the heart is! What does your house look like? Help your kindergartener build her writing skills by completing this list story.

What would you wish for if you had the chance? This writing prompt is a fun way to get beginning writers using their creativity.

Build your first grader's vocabulary skills by reviewing synonyms and antonyms together.

Children follow the prompts to plan and draft a short opinion piece in this engaging three-page template guide.

Your cursive O will be outstanding with this cursive O worksheet. Oliver and his orange objects help kids practice writing capital and lowercase cursive O.

Introduce children to physicist Albert Einstein — and a bit of theoretical physics — with this mini biography.

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

Does your student know their possessive pronouns? Find out with this essential grammar worksheet!

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

Add some fun to the old-fashioned placeholder with this bookmark! Your child answers a few questions and makes the bookmark, and the experience, all her own!

This reading and writing worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop motion effects.

Looking for a phonics worksheet that can help your child with his reading skills? This printable will help him to create a rhyming booklet!

Highlight your interests, favorites, and more with this engaging “about me” worksheet!

Challenge your student to write something out of the norm! Get creative and write a screenplay based on the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird.