4th - 7th Grade Reading Resources : Page 8

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.

Prepare students for reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by having them complete this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity!

Children learn about Susan B. Anthony, an abolitionist and civil rights advocate best remembered for her contributions to the women's suffrage movement.

Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

Use this resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about a major historical event. Students will read a passage about the Tsunami of 2004 and determine the author’s viewpoint as they establish the

Children to identify the theme of a story from the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of Indian animal fables.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when describing cause and effect.

Children will learn about the fascinating history of the automobile in America, dating all the way back to the 1700s.

Introduce your students to two myths from different cultures.

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Learn all about hurricanes in this earth science Q&A.

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.

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Use this simple organizer to help students track and record key ideas when reading and summarizing nonfiction texts.

Ever wonder how the plasma TV came to be? Read a brief history of the television with this ode to inventors.

Children learn about Rosie the Riveter, a fictional character who would became a well-known symbol of the World War II war effort, in this social studies worksheet.

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

It's time to find some rhymes! Help your budding poet learn to identify rhyme schemes in poetry with this worksheet.

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Read this text about the Great Depression with your students as they build comprehension skills.

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

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

Annie Oakley was the superstar of the wild west! Learn more about this Ohio sharpshooter with this worksheet on famous women in history.

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