This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

Build background knowledge about social classes in the early 1900s as students prepare to read A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions after students read chapters 1–6 of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. 

This quick activity will enable your students to practice the skill of making predictions.

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

The Battle of Bunker Hill was one of the early battles of the American Revolution. Discover the important features of the battle with this worksheet.

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

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

This graphic organizer can help students analyze a story, scenario, disagreement or controversy from multiple perspectives.

Use this resource with your students to practice connecting key events in nature. They will read about the water cycle and note the steps in order that they occur.

Read the facts on Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the U.S., full of awesome animals and gigantic geysers.

Give your young readers some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the beloved story of The Three Little Pigs! Students will consider protagonists, antagonists, and character dynamics with this version of the classic story.

Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored as one of the most important leaders in the civil rights movement. Give your fourth and fifth graders a chance to deepen their understanding of his life and legacy through this reader’s theater activity.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

Boost your first grader's reading comprehension by using a story map to outline a story visually.

Get ready for Thanksgiving with this worksheet about Plymouth Colony, the Pilgrims' first home in America.

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Have you ever been the new kid? Well, maybe you can relate to the character’s point of view. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying the point of view of a text and explaining the character’s opinions.

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool sea turtle facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.