Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 5–9 of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins! 

Get ready for some active reading! As your students read through this passage, they will underline key words and reinforce their understanding of words in context.

In this activity, your child will get the chance to adapt a favorite book for the stage or screen.

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.

This Louis Pasteur biography goes over his accomplishments, and includes a bacteria-based science activity at the end!

After reading the last sections of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with these questions!

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

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

Meet Charles Darwin, the man responsible for the theory of evolution and many other revolutionary scientific discoveries.

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, students demonstrate their understanding of the novel with these post-reading response prompts.

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the author’s use of language and literary devices in this literary response worksheet.

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

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

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

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

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Upon finishing The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, readers compare the written and visual forms of the story in this extension activity!

This graphic organizer will encourage your students to put together all the pieces of a strong inference and help them practice reading comprehension skills.

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for parts 5-7 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Your child can learn about the last manned space flight with this worksheet that works on history, reading comprenshion and science all in one.

Take a historical tour of Spain, home of the Running of the Bulls! Learn all about this Spanish-speaking country's diverse regions, dialects, and traditions.

Students will explore how illustrations can help deepen their understanding of a text.

Use this activity with your students to compare themes between fiction texts.