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

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

The Philadelphia Campaign was a year of battles with the Americans at Valley Forge. Students will hone reading skills and learn about the American Revolution.

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Analyze the impact an author’s words can have on the meaning and tone of a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Read and analyze a classic example of historical fiction with this adapted excerpt from Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper!

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.

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.

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

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

Use these questions to encourage critical thinking and support literacy development as students read the first few diary entries of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

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

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

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.

Beginning readers, enjoy this passage from Twain's classic "The Prince and the Pauper" and then complete some vocabulary and comprehension questions.

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

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

Read interesting nonfiction texts about natural disasters and practice identifying causes and effects.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.