Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

What is it like to be an ant? After reading Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, your students will know!

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

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

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about a famous person. Learners will research an important figure and then write down two true statements and one false statement.

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

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

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

Use this creative reading and writing worksheet to have your child make their own two truths and one lie game to share with a friend.

Give students the opportunity to think creatively about Louis Sachar’s Holes after they’re done reading!

After reviewing the different parts of a persuasive paragraph, your fourth graders will outline their own persuasive paragraph.

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

Assess your students’ knowledge of the revision process and its role in the writing process.

Learn to write like your favorite authors in this creative writing exercise for fourth and fifth graders!

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.