Support students’ comprehension and analysis of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders with these discussion questions for chapters 9-12.

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 5–8 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

Engage readers with a colorful artistic extension activity to go along with The Giver by Lois Lowry!

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

It's time to learn about dates! Students get a chance to practice writing complete sentences with correct capitalization using the days of the week and months of the year.

When students finish reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

Provide students with word study practice using this cut-and-paste short A CVC word sort!

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

Give young readers word study practice with this hands-on short A picture sort, featuring -at and -an CVC words!

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

Get more word study practice during the winter season with this engaging beginning and ending blend sort! 

Digraphs are two letters that create a single sound, such as the "sh" sound in "sheep." In this worksheet, kids complete words that are missing digraphs.

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, encourage students to examine the novel's setting with this creative writing worksheet! 

Prepare students for reading The Great Fire by facilitating a picture walk through the first chapters’ images, pictures, and maps.

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

Give students fun word study practice during the winter season using this short and long vowel sort! 

Get more fun word study practice during the winter season using this short and long vowel sort! 

After reading the next few chapters of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s Esperanza Rising, engage students in discussion with this two-page guide!

After reading the last sections of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with these questions!

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of writing compound sentences to show relationships between two independent clauses. Your students will write compound sentences with the support of sentence frames.

Keep this study aid handy during homework time, or keep a copy in the back of your binder for classroom reference.

Use these discussion questions to engage students in thoughtful dialogue as they read chapters 9-12 of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising!

Give budding readers essential word study practice with the help of this hands-on short A word sort!