Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

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.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Learn how to write dialogue with this writing activity that, in the long run, will help you better understand literature.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

The Analyzing a Poem graphic organizer supports students with specific questions to help them understand a poem.

What if Pinocchio were a girl instead of a boy? How would the story be different?

Explore the major themes of your reading assignment by making a book poster. Don't forget the tagline!

Let your students choose a scientific concept that they want to base their story on and then, just for fun, ask them to write a few pages of a science fiction story.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Compare and contrast characters with this clever fifth-grade graphic organizer!