Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Help students reflect on chapters 9–12 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

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.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, let students use their creativity to model the two main settings from the story!

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

Your budding historian can learn about the Buffalo Soldiers, the first African American military troops to serve in peacetime.

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

Liberty is precious to humans and to horses. Your young student can read about Beauty's longing for liberty in this worksheet for "Black Beauty."

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

Use this worksheet to help your students analyze and talk about cause-and-effect text structure.

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

Students will use content-specific vocabulary in context as they learn about the Revolutionary War.

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

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

Children learn about Rosie the Riveter, a fictional character who would became a well-known symbol of the World War II war effort, in this social studies worksheet.

Engage readers with an exciting musical extension activity to be completed after they've finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry!

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Prepare students for reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor by accessing and building background knowledge!

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

After completing the novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts! 

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

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

Help students reflect on chapters 5–8 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Whether you love the great outdoors or are preparing for the zompocalpyse, this round-up of survival skills will help kids be prepared for any disaster!

Your little learner can learn about the heroic Tuskegee Airmen as he hones his reading comprehension skills with this history worksheet.

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

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

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."