Have students compare and contrast fictional and historical accounts with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Use this resource for fluency practice.

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

How did our society become so advanced? Introduce your student to the Industrial Revolution with this reading sheet.

Children will read an excerpt from Stevenson's book, then respond to a reading comprehension and a creative writing prompt.

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

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

Students will practice using dictionary guide words by matching words to the pages they would appear on.

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.

With this Have Fun Reading Choice Board, budding bookworms can choose from a variety of engaging reading-based activities, from reading in a cozy blanket fort to drawing or acting out their favorite part of a story.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help learners analyze two characters from the book with this creative extension activity!

Students identify noun phrases that describe character and setting.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the major themes and events from The Giver.

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

In A Christmas Carol, setting plays a big role in the story. Learn about A Christmas Carol setting in this worksheet.

Young learners will enjoy tracing, coloring, and assembling this mini book about astronaut and scientist Mae Jemison.

Students hone reading comprehension and analysis skills with this adapted excerpt from the first chapter of The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany.

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 6–11 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Read interesting nonfiction texts about natural disasters and practice identifying causes and effects.

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

Children learn about the women's suffrage movement in the U.S., including key players and events, and how it contributed to the eventual passing of the 19th Amendment.

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

Before reading Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk to Water, use these pre-reading prompts to engage students in a discussion about key story elements.

Meet Charles Darwin, the man responsible for the theory of evolution and many other revolutionary scientific discoveries.