Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 6–11 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Give students a chance to engage with a classic science fiction story while practicing crucial reading comprehension skills!

Children learn key vocabulary related to the executive branch of the U.S. government in this spelling worksheet.

Get swept up in this comprehensive worksheet about the awesome power of dust storms.

Read this classic story by Rudyard Kipling with your students for basic reading comprehension practice. As they answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions, your students will prove that they understand what they read!

Students will compare two informational texts on the same topic using a Venn diagram.

Little brothers and sisters can be annoying sometimes, but that's never an excuse to waste a perfectly good cupcake.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Assess your students' read-alouds with this versatile rubric.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Esperanza from Esperanza Rising.

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

In this yummy exercise, students will differentiate between statements of fact and opinion as they read all about chocolate!

Use this graphic organizer to help your students identify the four elements of a fictional story: characters, setting, problem, and solution.

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.

The Battle of Bunker Hill was one of the early battles of the American Revolution. Discover the important features of the battle with this worksheet.

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

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

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

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

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

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

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about soul music and the history of African-Americans in pop music, all in this soulful worksheet!

Explore history with famous female navigator Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark find their way across the west.

E-mail is here to stay, but that doesn't mean kids shouldn't learn how to write a friendly letter.Teach your child how to write a letter to a friend.