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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Introduce students to the concept of using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

This composition prompt asks kids to consider one thing they can do and one thing they can stop doing this Earth Day.

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

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but they'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Making a timeline is a good way to sort out a story's events. Double the challenge by having kids make The Hobbit timeline, one of the book and one of the film.

Learn about the science behind one of nature's most awesome spectacles: monsoons.

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Practice analyzing poetry with one of Emily Dickinson’s most popular poems!

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.