Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading and writing worksheet.

Young readers will enjoy reflecting on a recent book with this engaging template.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Children keep track of their weekday reading with this useful two-page template.

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.

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

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

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.

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

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

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

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

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

Using the brothers from Ender's Game, our writing worksheet gives your child the opportunity to examine any rivalries between him and his siblings or friends.

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

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the author’s use of language and literary devices in this literary response worksheet.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, let students use their creativity to model the two main settings from the story!

After reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

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

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

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

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.