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

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

Young readers practice analyzing characters in a work of fiction with this five-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Read a one-page adaptation of the Japanese myth, “The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child” and answer a variety of eighth-grade comprehension questions!

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Before reading Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk to Water, use these pre-reading prompts to engage students in a discussion about key story elements.

Practice analyzing poetry with one of Emily Dickinson’s most popular poems!

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.

Students read all about seaweed and answer standards-based comprehension questions in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

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

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

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

Use this reading and writing worksheet to teach first and second grade students about Angela Davis and her life as an activist, writer, and scholar.

This ELA-focused choice board is perfect for supporting independence and encouraging students to practice their reading skills, build reading fluency, and boost reading comprehension.

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

Meet the red wolf, an endangered species of animal that was once very common, but in the past 50 year nearly became extinct!

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Learn all about conflict in literature and how it makes the story possible in this conflict in literature worksheet.

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Introduce learners to the American advocate Dorothea Dix with this three-page informational reading comprehension worksheet.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

Read and analyze a classic example of historical fiction with this adapted excerpt from Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper!

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.