This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Ivan from The One and Only Ivan.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Language is fascinating and confusing! Learn some words in other languages that don't translate to English with this great linguistics worksheet.

Familiarize your students with clue words that help indicate cause and effect relationships.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when comparing and contrasting.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

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

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

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

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

This composition prompt asks kids to consider one thing they can do and one thing they can stop doing this Earth Day.

What happened and why? Match the events in cause-and-effect pairs in this engaging reading comprehension worksheet!

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but they'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.