These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

Use this resource to help your students identify and explain the problem in a passage using past tense verbs.

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

This worksheet helps students analyze the ways in which stories are similar and different.

Ride along with the Lakota tribe with this history worksheet. These Native Americans were part of the horse culture of the Dakotas.

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

Use this touching worksheet to help your child with reading comprehension and storytelling skills.

Travel to the Land of the Munchkins in this Wizard of Oz worksheet, which focuses on story details and setting.

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

Take a quiz on basic facts about U.S. history and government.

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

Feel inspired to move to the beat with our reading comprehension exercise about Mexican music. Kids answer questions about the article in this writing worksheet.

Children learn the inspiring life story of historical hero Frederick Douglass, who rose from slavery to become a preeminent leader of the abolitionist movement, in this worksheet.

Use this activity to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text!

Can your child tell fact from fiction? Boost reading comprehension with this story sheet featuring a famous tall tale character: Paul Bunyan!

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

Use this ocean-themed worksheet to measure your students' understanding of simple nonfiction text features. Your little bookworm will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about the whole book.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Kids will read a classic Japanese folktale and then answer questions about the the problem, solution, and ending in this fun reading comprehension activity.

Explore history with famous female navigator Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark find their way across the west.

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

Kids read a story about a puppy, then finish it by writing what they think will happen next.

Enlist the famous Beatrix Potter in helping your child develop solid reading strategies.

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Build your students' emotional literacy with this handy emotion word bank! This resource provides students with visuals and a variety of emotion synonyms to increase their understanding of character traits in fictional text.

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.