Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 1–8 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

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

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

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

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

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

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Use this worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.

Learn more about the imposing tsunami with this worksheet about the science of tsunamis.

Differentiating between facts and opinions is a key fourth grade skill to master and is helpful in identifying the author’s purpose in a text. Use this activity to give your students extra practice differentiating between these two kinds of sentence

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.

Do you believe in the Bermuda Triangle? Compare witness accounts of these weird waters and draw your own conclusions in this reading worksheet.

Choose your literary nonfiction response prompt! Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the impact of an author’s word choice.

In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

After reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, have students reflect on the novel and record their responses to these post-reading writing prompts!

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing and evaluating the structure of a nonfiction text.

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

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 5–8 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

After reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, students compare the movie adaptation to the written story.

This worksheet is a quick-reference tool of space vocabulary for kids, with an exercise to use the words properly in provided sentences.

Collect your favorite summer quotes from friends and family in this Say What? sheet.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

Travel to the Land of the Munchkins in this Wizard of Oz worksheet, which focuses on story details and setting.