Use these engaging discussion prompts to support literacy development as students read the next set of entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

Read this famous Norse myth starring Sif and Loki and find out how mythology shapes our understanding of the world around us.

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 5–9 of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins! 

In this activity, your child will get the chance to adapt a favorite book for the stage or screen.

Choose your literary nonfiction response prompt! Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the impact of an author’s word choice.

This Louis Pasteur biography goes over his accomplishments, and includes a bacteria-based science activity at the end!

After reading the last sections of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with these questions!

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, students demonstrate their understanding of the novel with these post-reading response prompts.

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the author’s use of language and literary devices in this literary response worksheet.

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

After reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, students compare the movie adaptation to the written story.

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

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

Upon finishing The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, readers compare the written and visual forms of the story in this extension activity!

This graphic organizer will encourage your students to put together all the pieces of a strong inference and help them practice reading comprehension skills.

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for parts 5-7 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Use this activity with your students to compare themes between fiction texts.

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 1–8 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.

After reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, students reflect on the major themes and events of Anne’s story with these response prompts.

Those tiny bumps on signs are one of the biggest inventions in modern history. Meet Louis Braille, a man who has helped millions of people worldwide.

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