These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

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.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Learn more about this magnificent marsupial in this science and reading worksheet that presents some quick facts and a fun writing exercise!

If your child prefers scaly and slithery to soft and fluffy, here's a worksheet on the goanna, a large lizard that lives in Australia.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

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.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.

Don’t just read nonfiction—learn from and engage with it in this graphic organizer!

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

Use this worksheet to learn Cassowary facts, and introduce your child to an exotic species of bird from Down Under.

Got a curious kid at home? Help him discover more about the kangaroo, the national animal of Australia and a favorite of zoo-goers everywhere.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Watch Louis Sachar’s Holes come to life in the movie adaptation!

Read about the Wampus Cat, a famous Tennessee legend. Test comprehension as your child reads about some of the sightings.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

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