This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

Children keep track of their weekday reading with this useful two-page template.

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

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.

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

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

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

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

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

In this activity, your child will get the chance to adapt a favorite book for the stage or screen.

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.

After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

After reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

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

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

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

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

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

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

Children are invited to come up with a new ending to a book they have read in this inventive fan fiction worksheet template.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.