5th - 8th Grade Reading Resources : Page 13

What happens when you have a foolish friend? Introduce your stellar reader to the Panchatantra stories, animal fables with a moral lesson.

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

This passage sheds light to the powerful women's workforce in World War 2. After reading the passage, students will use their critical thinking stills to answer comprehension questions.

Young historians will practice writing essays and get a great reading comprehension workout with this worksheet about the famous Chinese explorer Zheng He.

Use these discussion questions to engage your readers and support their comprehension of chapters 18–23 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver.

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

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

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.

Students practice comparing and contrasting two versions of the same piece of text—written and audio/visual—with this graphic organizer!

Use this bubble map to compare two things in a visually-appealing way.

In this worksheet, kids find the titles of well-loved children’s stories — and match them to the sequence of emojis that describe them.

Students imagine a hypothetical interview with Malala Yousafzai, using their research skills to form and answer thoughtful interview questions.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–8 of Anne of Green Gables.

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Help your young reader learn to identify themes with the Panchatantra story "The Broken Pot" a classic fable from India that has a moral lesson.

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

In this worksheet students will be challenged to compare and contrast the effects of different weather phenomena.

This graphic organizer provides an opportunity to keep track of key vocabulary words they encounter within an informational text.

Submerge yourself in the fascinating history of submarines! Your little inventor will get a taste of the early stages of this important technology.

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, challenge students to think about the symbolism of the costumes in the novel and get creative!

Embark on an adventure through the woods with the Mole, in this excerpt from Kenneth Grahame's charming book, The Wind in the Willows.

A reading comprehension assignment with monsters and a wickedly complex labryinth? Yes, please!

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from chapters 7–12 of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief.

Have students compare and contrast fictional and historical accounts with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.