Did you know that Texas was once an independent country? Travel back in time to learn about the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence in 1836.

Use these thought-provoking prompts to reflect on the plot, characters, and themes in Louis Sachar’s Holes!

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!
 

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

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

Use the worksheet Census Data 2017: Working for a Living 1 to help learners order numbers from real-life data up to the millions place. Ask learners to compare and order the job and its total number of workers in the blank table from greatest to least.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

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

Use the Care for the Earth worksheet to have students practice conservation for a week, then reflect on how small changes can create a big impact on the planet.

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

Using this template, readers will use symbols and words to identify the ways a character's actions, thoughts, and words change from the beginning to the end of a story.

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

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for parts 5-7 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the eighth and final part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

In this assessment, students apply their language arts knowledge to grammar problems.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help learners analyze two characters from the book with this creative extension activity!

Can you hear the dogs barking and the birds chirping in the park? Study onomatopoeia in this worksheet! 

Find the remainders to solve a riddle in this long division worksheet!