5th - 8th Grade Reading Resources : Page 23

Students will have some fun with reading eyewitness accounts of Roswell, and then doing some writing responses on the topic.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Signal Words, Facts, and Opinions.

Learn about Jewish-American baseball player Sandy Koufax, a baseball legend who's considered one of the greatest Jewish-American athletes in history.

During this activity, students will learn about Japan's capital city, Tokyo and create their own travel brochure.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Learn about a scary condition called Old Hag Syndrome. Kids will respond to the reading with some comprehension questions.

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, students explore the part boycotts have played in the country’s history.

Invite kids to take their emoji skills to the next level by using them to describe books, events, and themselves!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect Structure.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elections and Conditions.

Learn about the legendary Flying Dutchman, a "ghost ship" said to warn sailors of trouble, and get some practice comparing descriptions of the same topic.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

Comparing different stories is a great way to help your young reader get started with analyzing texts. She'll compare and contrast two children's favorites.

Here's a Hans Christian Andersen tale you might not know: The Tinder Box, where a soldier goes on a magical adventure.

This worksheet features writing prompts to help your kid think analytically about the story of Bridge to Terabithia and get the most out of the book and movie.

Will visitors see leprechauns while visiting in Dublin? Tell your researching students to find out with this travel brochure activity!

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Special effects in movies have been around almost as long as movies themselves. These worksheets introduce kids to the early filmmaker, Georges Méliès.

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.

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

Read a famous narrative poem, "Casey at the Bat," and practice reading comprehension skills at the same time in this printable mini-book worksheet.

After completing Walter Lord’s book A Night to Remember, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

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.

Young historians get to know the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, with this history and civics crossword puzzle.

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

After reading a nonfiction text about the history, sights, and people of Vancouver, your student will create their own informational brochure about the city.