Encourage critical thinking and support your students’ literacy development by asking questions as they read the final chapters of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.

After reading the last sections of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with these questions!

Engage readers with a colorful artistic extension activity to go along with The Giver by Lois Lowry!

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

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.

Upon finishing The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, readers compare the written and visual forms of the story in this extension activity!

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing and evaluating the structure of a nonfiction text.

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

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for parts 5-7 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Annie Oakley was the superstar of the wild west! Learn more about this Ohio sharpshooter with this worksheet on famous women in history.

Children learn about three women who emerged as influential photographers during the Great Depression in the United States through the FSA program.

After reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, students reflect on the major themes and events of Anne’s story with these response prompts.

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

With this storyboard, students will draw and write about events in a chronological order.

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, students give thought to the various settings in the story with this creative post-reading prompt!

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

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

Use this two-page graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast informational narratives from two different genres.

Those tiny bumps on signs are one of the biggest inventions in modern history. Meet Louis Braille, a man who has helped millions of people worldwide.

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development with these discussion questions for Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. 

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

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

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

This Louis Pasteur biography goes over his accomplishments, and includes a bacteria-based science activity at the end!

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

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.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 9–18 of Anne of Green Gables.