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

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

This graphic organizer provides an opportunity to keep track of key vocabulary words they encounter within an informational text.

This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

Analyze the impact an author’s words can have on the meaning and tone of a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

Learn all about conflict in literature and how it makes the story possible in this conflict in literature worksheet.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

Help students reflect on chapters 1–4 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Familiarize your students with clue words that help indicate cause and effect relationships.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of rock 'n' roll music and the history of African-Americans in pop music!

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

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

What if you met a snake who could make you rich? Enjoy one of the classic Panchatantra stories, animal fables from India that have a moral lesson.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Kids hunt for clues about a character's traits with this worksheet.

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Readers practice describing fictional characters using their own words with this graphic organizer template.

Step right up to the most famous wall on Earth! Spanning nearly four thousand miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the oldest wonders of the world.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

Introduce your students to two myths from different cultures.

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they describe characters, settings, and events in detail, using specific details from the text.

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.

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