Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

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

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 6–11 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, students give thought to the various settings in the story with this creative post-reading prompt!

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

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–8 of Anne of Green Gables.

Encourage critical thinking with this discussion guide as students read the next set of Anne’s diary entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

After students read R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, watch the film adaptation of the movie to compare and contrast the written and film versions of the story!
 

Support students’ comprehension and analysis of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders with these discussion questions for chapters 9-12.

After completing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, have students reflect on the significant themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

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

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Ponyboy From The Outsiders.

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

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 12–17 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Prepare students for reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by having them complete this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity!

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!

Use these engaging discussion prompts to support literacy development as students read the next set of entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

After completing the novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts! 

After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, give students the chance to reflect on the novel and respond in writing to five of these post-reading prompts.

After reading the next few chapters of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s Esperanza Rising, engage students in discussion with this two-page guide!

Prepare students for reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor by accessing and building background knowledge!

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.