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

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

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.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

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

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

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

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

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

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

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.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Watch Louis Sachar’s Holes come to life in the movie adaptation!

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

Give students the opportunity to think creatively about Louis Sachar’s Holes after they’re done reading!

Engage your creative side with this musical companion activity to a unit on Louis Sachar’s Holes!

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

Children keep track of their weekday reading with this useful two-page template.

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.