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.

Readers will reinforce their understanding of key narrative features in this writing exercise.

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by reading about the holiday’s history and imagery!

As students read nonfiction books, have them think which important words teach about the main topic. At the end of this activity, students will have made a web of vocabulary words!

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

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

Encourage children to reflect on the First and Fourth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution with this multi-page worksheet.

Children work with sentence structure, build teamwork skills, and construct a story in this fun writing game.

Introduce readers to the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet! 

Give your students a chance to reflect on the importance of learning and practice their writing skills with this engaging writing prompt!

In this summer writing prompt worksheet, children will describe the summer climate where they live.

In the third installment of this fun vocabulary-building worksheet, students will match words to their opposites, or antonyms!

An anagram is a word that can be rearranged to create other words. Make an anagram by using the same letters but in a different order!

Expand your reader’s knowledge of world folklore with this unique and engaging reading comprehension worksheet! 

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Valentine's Day-themed similes!

Have middle school students use these writing prompts as a jumping off point as they set out to write an informational essay.

Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.

Help young writers build and strengthen their vocabulary and language skills with this great grammar worksheet!

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.

Encourage students to analyze a vocabulary word with this simple and effective graphic organizer!

Clarify the meaning of your sentences by learning to identify and avoid misplaced and dangling modifiers with this seventh-grade worksheet!

Incorporate spelling practice into your Presidents' Day celebrations with this festive word search activity!

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

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

This veggie-themed worksheet helps refine learners' understanding of how and where to use commas.

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.