Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 12–17 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Use this worksheet to teach your students how to write declarative sentences with details from an informational text.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

In this Court Cases worksheet, students read descriptions of five landmark decisions, then match them to their correct name.

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

When in Rome, what should visitors do? Let your students become a tour guide to Rome, the historic city in Italy, with this travel brochure activity.

Learn some of the common Morse code prosigns with this fun activity!

Children learn about the Sit-In movement in the United States, whereby Americans staged nonviolent sit-ins to protest businesses' racist segregationist policies.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the major themes and events from The Giver.

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.

Help your child understand the importance of preserving the environment, with this info-sheet about an endangered species: the Iranian jerboa.

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

Here's a snapshot of the story of Orion. His tale makes for light reading and simple practice with story structure for kids.

Engage in some sneaky warfare with the tale of the Trojan Horse, one of the most legendary Greek myths ever told.

In this historical heroes worksheet, children are introduced to Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to help found Tuskegee University and advocate for the educational and civl rights of fellow African Americans.

Readers practice describing fictional characters using their own words with this graphic organizer template.

Kids hunt for clues about a character's traits with this worksheet.

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

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

Celebrate the contributions of famous Irish Americans with this worksheet. Read a bit about each famous figure and complete a comprehension exercise.

Explore characters in literature by extracting clues from this paragraph about one of the main Secret Garden characters: Miss Mary Lennox.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African-American jazz legend Charlie Parker!

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

A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.