This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

After students read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, have them compare and contrast the greasers and the Socs using this two-page novel study extension activity!

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

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

Read this text about the Great Depression with your students as they build comprehension skills.

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

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

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

In this exercise, EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

America gets its name from Amerigo Vespucci. Kids will learn about this important historical figure with this fun worksheet.

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

After students read R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, watch the film adaptation of the movie to compare and contrast the written and film versions of the story!
 

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

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

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

Engage in some sneaky warfare with the tale of the Trojan Horse, one of the most legendary Greek myths ever told.

If some of these lyrics sound familiar, that's because America the Beautiful is a famous national song! Learn all of the lyrics with this worksheet.

This worksheet gives kids the opportunity to compare and contrast two different versions of the Greek myth of Persephone.

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

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

Get swept up in this comprehensive worksheet about the awesome power of dust storms.

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

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

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

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

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

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool jellyfish 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.