All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

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.

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

Help your student warm up to opinion writing by asking him to write a review.

Have your child try her hand at storyboarding in this reading comprehension sheet.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

There's no denying kids love to laugh. Yuk it up with this brief (very brief) history of comedy from our Performing Arts series.

In A Christmas Carol, setting plays a big role in the story. Learn about A Christmas Carol setting in this worksheet.

A natural with numbers,Shakuntala Devi rose to fame at a young age by showing the calculator who's boss with her lightning-fast mental math.

Want to meet a real-life Mulan? Read up on Deborah Sampson, a barrier-breaking woman who fought for equality in the armed forces.

Learn how to read, analyze, and create a line graph with this helpful math worksheet!

Learners will create a decorative leaf project with their resolutions, then write a short paragraph summarizing how they hope to achieve them.

Use your vocabulary to solve this autumnal synonym puzzle!

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

This fun math worksheet gets kids to solve a tricky riddle while they practice addition and subtraction. Find out why lobsters don't share with this worksheet.

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

Practice creative writing, storytelling, and dialogue skills as you create a dialogue in this comics activity.

What is it like to be an ant? After reading Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, your students will know!

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

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Before your child gets started writing research reports, help them learn that not all sources are created equal.

Children will look at a list of 20 words and sort them according to whether they make a long or a short /oo/ sound.

Readers will reinforce their understanding of key narrative features in this writing exercise.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

This graphic organizer guides readers to complete a story map of their reading by having them record the characters, setting, problem, and solution.

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

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Introduce this graphic organizer as a way to help students compose opinion pieces.

Decode common abbreviations in this upper elementary worksheet!