Reading Resources : Page 18

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Children learn about the Sit-In movement in the United States, whereby Americans staged nonviolent sit-ins to protest businesses' racist segregationist policies.

Challenge your middle school student with a quiz about the Civil War! They'll answer questions about important people and places in the Civil War.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Students will use an adjective word bank to help them identify statements of fact and opinion.

Hone reading comprehension and analysis skills with this worksheet featuring a French fairy tale about a prince, a curse, and the importance of recognizing one's own flaws.

Explore story sense with your young reader. First, read the astronaut's story. Then, let your imagination tell what will happen next!

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 1–4 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

After independent reading, have students record and reflect. Young readers will demonstrate their ability to summarize and respond to their reading, and a log is a fun way for them to track their progress. Make copies of this log to use again and again!

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.

Learn about the Tuskegee Institute, an important site in American History. It was one of the first universities made to help educate African Americans.

Step right up to the most famous wall on Earth! Spanning nearly four thousand miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the oldest wonders of the world.

Before reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, use this pre-reading activity to get readers thinking about one of the major themes in the novel: stereotypes.

Use this resource with your students to practice determining who is telling the story. Your students will also practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

Read this nursery rhyme classic, then answer a reading comprehension question.

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

In this assessment worksheet, students demonstrate their knowledge of sequencing events.

Reading nonfiction can be tricky, whether read individually or as a group. Young readers will be asked to match common text features to the correct illustrated features in this tree-themed activity.

This story sequencing worksheet helps with reading comprehension, listing, and even artistic skills!

Use these questions to encourage critical thinking and support literacy development as students read the first few diary entries of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

After your students finish reading this story about Leo and how he overcomes his soccer injury, they will answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about the text.

Your child will love learning all about the exploits of the famous European explorer Marco Polo with this attractively illustrated worksheet.

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.