After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Children learn about the women's suffrage movement in the U.S., including key players and events, and how it contributed to the eventual passing of the 19th Amendment.

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

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

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

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

Study the map of terrestrial biomes, then use it to answer questions.

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.

Using this worksheet template, students plan their work by filling out a plot diagram with their story's exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and climax.

In Blarney: A Game of Deception, children learn about the legend of the Blarney Stone, along with the rules for a fun game where they must decide which player is lying!

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

There are many endangered species all around the world. Read about the Amur leopard and why it's endangered with this information page.

Students will use an adjective word bank to help them identify statements of fact and opinion.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

For your budding environmentalist, here is an information sheet on a well-known endangered species, the Komodo dragon!

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–5 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Get in tune with nature, and read a bit about an endangered species of animal, the Black-footed Ferret. Your child can color an illustration as he reads.

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

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

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.