Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades! 

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 1–4 of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. 

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

Analyze different points of views and perspectives in a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

Every state has lots of court houses and hundreds of judges, but our country has set one court above all the rest -- the Supreme Court.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

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

Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children learn facts about dolphin's evolution, behavior, and physical traits in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Cleopatra ruled Egypt and conquered the hearts of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Read a mini-biography on this remarkable woman in history.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 6–11 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Introduce readers to the inspiring poem “Thanksgiving” by American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox with this sixth-grade reading comprehension worksheet.

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Compare and contrast your traits with the character traits of other people.

This graphic organizer gives students the opportunity to analyze the extent to which a filmed production of a story stays faithful to or departs from the related text.

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.

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.

Use this simple organizer to help students track and record key ideas when reading and summarizing nonfiction texts.