4th - 8th Grade Make Connections Worksheets

Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored as one of the most important leaders in the civil rights movement. Give your fourth and fifth graders a chance to deepen their understanding of his life and legacy through this reader’s theater activity.

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

Introduce readers to the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

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.

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Learn about what makes certain elements cooler than others in this chemistry-based informational reading passage! 

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,

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

Learn more about molecules and how they comprise the air all around us in this intro-to-earth-science worksheet.

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

With a movie word search and fascinating info about early films, this set of reading and writing worksheets is sure to entertain your budding movie-lover!

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

Use these pre-reading discussion prompts to prepare students for reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

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