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

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Compound Sentences in Nonfiction.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Compound Sentences in Nonfiction.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Review Civil War key terms and people with this history sheet. Your child will decide which terms describe the Confederacy and which describe the Union.

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

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

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

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

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

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

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

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Ivan from The One and Only Ivan.

Complete the story by writing the main events.

Differentiating between facts and opinions is a key fourth grade skill to master and is helpful in identifying the author’s purpose in a text. Use this activity to give your students extra practice differentiating between these two kinds of sentence

What happened and why? Match the events in cause-and-effect pairs in this engaging reading comprehension worksheet!

Read sentences from the Constitution to help your students find and understand conditional sentences.