Keeping a reading log is a great way to encourage your child to set goals and track their progress. Your students will build reading fluency and stamina by logging and graphing their reading time.

This Hickory Dickory Dock coloring page features the mouse from the classic nursery rhyme as he runs down the clock at the stroke of one.

Get to know scientist, artist, and activist Mae Jemsion in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

After reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver, watch the movie adaptation in order to compare the written and visual forms of the story!

Your budding historian can learn about the Buffalo Soldiers, the first African American military troops to serve in peacetime.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

Get to know John Coltrane, a jazz legend, with this music history worksheet! Read his mini-biography and answer some trivia.

Read this chapter from the classic book Pinocchio, and identify the verbs and verb clauses the author uses to create action and set the scene.

Every living thing needs a home to survive! Many animals have unique and interesting ways of building their homes.

Give your young writer a chance to practice procedural writing by sharing how to complete a simple recipe of their choosing. Having students consider each step of a process sets them up for success when writing how-to books.

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

The history of Valentine's Day is full of theories about how the holiday began. Read about the history of Valentine's Day with this exercise and activity.

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

Read this shortened version of the Monkey King story, then try your hand at writing a new folk tale starring the Monkey King himself!

Familiarize your students with clue words that help indicate cause and effect relationships.

After students read R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, watch the film adaptation of the movie to compare and contrast the written and film versions of the story!
 

How was writing first invented? Find out by reading this delightful story by Rudyard Kipling, "How the First Letter was Written."

After reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, have students reflect on the novel and record their responses to these post-reading writing prompts!

This Shakespeare biography, written for kids, teaches young readers, writers and thespians all about the literary giant.

Support key literacy skills with these discussion questions as students continue their reading of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Help your student with reading comprehension, and enjoy a favorite short story by Rudyard Kipling, about a King, a Queen and two quarreling butterflies.

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.