Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

In this worksheet students will be challenged to compare and contrast the effects of different weather phenomena.

Learn more about one of the most accomplished scientists of the 20th century with this worksheet about Stephen Hawking.

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Travel back in time to ancient China in this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Nightingale.

Learn about one of the world's most mysterious pieces of written text, the Voynich manuscript, which has never been deciphered.

Learn about first Lady Dolley Madison with this history worksheet, complete with some reading comprehension exercises.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

This worksheet teaches kids the importance of notetaking while reading using the shape of a well-known object: a tree!

How many similies can you find in this Christmas poem? Get into the holiday spirit with a holiday classic, "The Night Before Christmas"!

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Help your child read this page about the Sumatran rhinoceros, where they can color an illustration as they learn about why this animal is endangered.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Celebrate the season by reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Then challenge your young reader to fill in this graphic organizer chart.

Have students record questions on sticky notes as they are reading, then they'll compile them all on this helpful worksheet before tracking down and recording their answers.

Help inspire your little writer with a fun prompt! They'll use their favorite song as fuel for beginning poetry analysis.

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

How do you know when it's wintertime? Have your child complete this winter writing prompt to exercise writing skills and reinforce seasonal knowledge.

Use this worksheet to help students make a prediction about a characters’ actions.

Would you decorate your Christmas tree with spider webs? Learn a wacky Christmas fun fact as you reflect on holiday traditions.

Read this passage from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and get both reading and writing practice in one fell swoop.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

Tap into your students’ creativity by challenging them to create an infographic using content from their reading!

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

Your child can learn about the last manned space flight with this worksheet that works on history, reading comprenshion and science all in one.

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

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

Have a storytelling adventure with Cinderella! Little readers will love putting their own spin on a classic fairy tale.