If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Explore the major themes of your reading assignment by making a book poster. Don't forget the tagline!

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

This worksheet will help your child organize the details needed to write about a book they've read!

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

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

Readers will delight in this first (worst) day of school story, and practice cause and effect with this funny worksheet.

Help your students take organized notes on a book, lesson, or video with this helpful worksheet. Kids will record facts they already know, what they learn, and questions they still have. Then they can paste their notes in their composition notebook.

Put a personalized twist on the old-school bookmark and your young reader will make the experience more fun for themselves by reviewing the book as they go.

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

After reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help learners make connections between the book and their community with this engaging extension activity.

After completing Jim Murphy’s book The Great Fire, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

Introduce students to nonfiction genres in their school or local library!

Bring it back to the basics with this reading comprehension exercise about Mindy, her birthday party, and her cake.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Prepare students for reading The Great Fire by facilitating a picture walk through the first chapters’ images, pictures, and maps.

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

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

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students begin reading The Great Fire.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students continue reading The Great Fire.

When students finish reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!