Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

After finishing Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, readers reflect on the major elements of the story with these writing prompts.

Learners are transported to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world as they learn about the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Ancient Egypt.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Introduce students to nonfiction genres in their school or local library!

Students identify noun phrases that describe character and setting.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a poem or drama in this worksheet for middle school learners.

Help students reflect on chapters 5–8 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Take flight with this ode to inventors! See the history of the helicopter, from its conception in ancient China to the modern vehicle it is today.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

Use an open-ended graphic organizer to help your students identify the problem and solution in three stories.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first chapters of A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

If some of these lyrics sound familiar, that's because America the Beautiful is a famous national song! Learn all of the lyrics with this worksheet.

Early in the American Revolution, the Patriots captured Fort Ticonderoga. Your young historian will learn the importance of this fort in this worksheet.

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Revolutionary War Vocabulary.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Support your students in using introductory phrases to cite the text as they make inferences.

Study the contributions of African American jazz legends with this worksheet on master bassist Charles Mingus.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

Get to know Arlen in this reading comprehension worksheet,

After finishing the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, give students a chance to “transmit” a memory of their own with this creative extension project! 

Deepen your students’ literary comprehension by comparing texts within a genre.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, let students use their creativity to model the two main settings from the story!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students continue reading The Great Fire.