Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

Use these pre-reading discussion prompts to prepare students for reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Learn some interesting history about some of the oldest, and longest, roads in the U.S.! Your child will learn about a famous trade route to Mexico.

Encourage thoughtful discussion after students read chapters 19–23 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games with this helpful discussion guide! 

After finishing Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, readers reflect on the major elements of the story with these writing prompts.

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

Use this discussion guide to engage learners in meaningful dialogue after they've read chapters 14–18 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. 

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Point of View Pronouns.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fact & Opinion Statements with Adjectives.

Help students ask and answer questions as they gather information from other students.

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

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

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

Use this final discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapter 15 through the end of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.

Support critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the final chapters of Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. 

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a poem or drama in this worksheet for middle school learners.

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

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

Students will use sentence frames to cite quotes from nonfiction texts.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect Structure.

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

Imagine being around in colonial America. If you were reporting about the American Revolution what would you have said about the times?

Use these discussion questions to engage students in thoughtful dialogue as they read chapters 9-12 of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising!

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

After completing Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, help learners connect with the book with this community-based extension activity! 

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