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

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Our writing worksheet guides your budding film buff as he explores theme and character development in the movie Ender's Game.

Children are known to be excellent volunteers! Channel this skill and passion for helping others by facilitating a community service project, and then have them use this worksheet to reflect more deeply about their experience.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

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

Making a timeline is a good way to sort out a story's events. Double the challenge by having kids make The Hobbit timeline, one of the book and one of the film.

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Get all the Tasmanian devil facts on this worksheet, from what they eat to how they got their name.

Sail away to the exotic and mysterious Easter Island!

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

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.

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

Use these pre-reading discussion prompts to prepare students for reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool shrimp facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Cut out this cool bookmark to spice up the reading experience for your readers. Students review the book they're reading and keep track of new words as they go.

Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed worksheet!

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.

Support critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the final chapters of Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. 

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.