Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

Young readers will pick a book and join a band of pirates as they guide them to find hidden treasure through the secrets of inference.

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.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

What's the best way to get to know a city? Play tourist! In this activity, students create a travel brochure on the 2008 Olympic host city, Beijing.

Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.

Children read a brief biography of world renowned opera singer Marian Anderson, then answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool crab facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool catfish facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Tap into your students’ creativity by challenging them to create an infographic using content from their reading!

Use these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.

In this worksheet, kids will learn about the author's perspective, an essential component of nonfiction comprehension.

Meet one of the most well-known Native American women in our country's history--Sacagawea!

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

A great way to introduce nonfiction to early readers, this Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz biography breaks down important information into readable passages.

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

A cinquain poem is a five line poem that does not rhyme. Your students can read an example of a cinquain poem, then try writing a few of their own.

Kids who are just starting to read nonfiction can get their feet wet with this easy Julia Child biography that has a quick comprehension exercise at the end.

Learn about influential writer and art patron Gertrude Stein, known in both the Jewish-American and art communities for being a famous writer and collector.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool violin facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

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

Here is a writing activity to review terms and concepts from the Civil War era. Your child will imagine being a soldier in the war and write a journal entry.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

Introduce children to the highest-ranking female politician in the United States in this Learning About Nancy Pelosi worksheet.