This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

People change all the time, and so do their likes and dislikes! Help your little one understand the concept of "then and now" with a fun drawing activity.

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.

What type of change will you get? Use this resource with your students to compare and contrast chemical and physical reactions.

Enjoy a heartwarming, childhood classic, The Velveteen Rabbit! Your little one will love coloring these storybook pages as she reads.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–5 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Frederick Douglass, an influential African American writer and abolitionist.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Get your feet wet with this one-page reading comprehension worksheet on the challenging sport of artistic swimming!

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

Familiarize your child with some simple sight words and rhymes with this coloring page of "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe".

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–8 of Anne of Green Gables.

Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 1–4 of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. 

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Why do athletes get their own cards but not book characters? Change all that with this fun, reusable worksheet.

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

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

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

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

Help students reflect on chapters 1–4 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

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