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

Give blossoming authors a chance to practice their creative writing skills with this realistic fiction writing prompt and standards-based rubric.

Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

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

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

After reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, students reflect on the major themes and events of Anne’s story with these response prompts.

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

Flex your superhuman writing abilities with a fun prompt! If you could be a superhero, what power would you want to have?

Keep this study aid handy during homework time, or keep a copy in the back of your binder for classroom reference.

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.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Use this chart to categorize your chosen superhero’s real and supernatural strengths.

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Use this inspirational personal narrative prompt and standards-based rubric to help middle schoolers hone their narrative writing skills.

Develop your students' writing skills with this character and setting worksheet!

Integrate writing and science with this research graphic organizer in which students research and record information about an invasive species in their local region.

Explore setting by creating a travel brochure for the setting of your book.

Learn all about the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world, and find out why Egyptians built it hundreds of years ago.

In this worksheet, children read about the March on Washington, the ideals that inspired it,  and the people who attended it.

Your fourth grader can practice story sequencing and flex their reading comprehension by putting the paragraphs in order to tell a story beginning to end.

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

Write your own Declaration of Independence in this creative writing worksheet!

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Invite your students to practice their creative storytelling with this fun, spring-themed writing prompt about a peculiar find at the beach following a storm!