This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son.”

After reading a Christmas classic, The Elves and the Shoemaker , test your child's comprehension with this story map shoe!

How is a train like a bird? Find out in this sixth-grade informational reading comprehension worksheet all about biomimicry!

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about fall break requirements!

Read about why kangaroos hop on two legs, in Rudyard Kipling's "The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo." Your kid will answer reading questions and color illustrations.

In this revising and editing worksheet, students will rewrite a paragraph using correct capitalization and punctuation.

Review the FLOSS rule with your students. Students can practice reading and identifying words that have double letters.

Build your reading stamina and comprehension skills with this worksheet based on “Ashputtel,” the Grimm Brothers’ version of another famous fairy tale.

Improve students' argument writing skills by identifying and removing irrelevant details with this middle school writing worksheet!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 1–4 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

Students practice distinguishing between simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences in this seventh-grade grammar worksheet.

Use this original fiction story to give learners practice analyzing story elements, making inferences, and growing their vocabulary using context clues and word relationships.

Introduce your child to the present progressive tense! Have him complete these sentences by adding "ing" to verbs so they talk about on-going actions.

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

Learners will practice using conjunctions to fix run-on sentences in this grammar and mechanics worksheet.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Assess your students’ end-of-year knowledge of grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Children practice spelling and alphabetizing sight words in this handy practice worksheet.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Here is a fresh and fruity way to learn a bit of life science. Sit down with your little one and teach them all the different parts of an apple!

Introduce students to some wild and weird types of lightning with this fascinating reading comprehension worksheet!

Get more practice differentiating between sentence fragments, run-ons, and complete sentences in this fun sorting worksheet!

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!