When in Rome, what should visitors do? Let your students become a tour guide to Rome, the historic city in Italy, with this travel brochure activity.

Read the eyewitness accounts of sightings at Russell Hotel, then do some comparing and contrasting using the Venn diagram at the bottom.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the major themes and events from The Giver.

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

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

Read this shortened version of the Momotaro story, then think about what makes a true hero, both in a fairytale and in real life.

After reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver, watch the movie adaptation in order to compare the written and visual forms of the story!

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

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, encourage students to examine the novel's setting with this creative writing worksheet! 

Use this bubble map to compare two things in a visually-appealing way.

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

Cleopatra ruled Egypt and conquered the hearts of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Read a mini-biography on this remarkable woman in history.

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

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

Encourage thoughtful discussion after students read chapters 19–23 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games with this helpful discussion guide! 

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Any kid studying the American Revolution will likely have to memorize this famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow!

Meet some legendary monsters with this fun match up activity. These mythical creatures all reflect a bit of the geography where they originated.

Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Use this two-page graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast informational narratives from two different genres.

Do you know what a memoir is? This worksheet will tell you and show you some great examples from famous memoirs.

Use this guide to promote in-depth discussion after students have finished reading chapters 10–13 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.