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5th - 8th Grade Reading Response Worksheets

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

After-Reading Response Choice Board: Informational Text

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

Newspaper Article Template

After completing R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

Novel Study: Wonder: Acts of Kindness

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.

Crafting a Thesis Statement: Literary Essay Writing

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Reading Response Log

After completing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, have students reflect on the significant themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Post-Reading Questions

Learn more about the life of Anne Frank, a tragic, true-life story of a young girl caught up in the horrors of war.

Anne Frank

After reading S.E. Hinton&rsquo;s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost&rsquo;s poem &ldquo;Nothing Gold Can Stay.&rdquo;

Novel Study: The Outsiders: Poetry Analysis of “Nothing Gold Can Stay”

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.

Biography of Wangari Maathai

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

Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Post-Reading Response Prompts

After completing Linda Sue Park&#39;s novel A Long Walk to Water, help learners&nbsp;connect with the book with this community-based extension activity!&nbsp;

Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water: Community Project

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the author’s use of language and literary devices in this literary response worksheet.

Literary Response Prompt: Language

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

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Post-Reading Writing Prompts

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

Literary Response Prompt: Theme

After finishing Rick Riordan&rsquo;s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author&#39;s use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Novel Study: The Lightning Thief: Analyzing Characters’ Dialogue

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

Novel Study: The Outsiders: Greasers vs. Socs

After reading Linda Sue Park&#39;s novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity!&nbsp;

Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water: The Five Senses in the Akobo

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Literary Response Prompt: Characters

These fun dog-themed worksheets will help fifth graders practice their reading comprehension skills.

Dog Heroes of Alaska

After reading Suzanne Collins&#39; The Hunger Games, have students reflect on the novel and record their responses to these post-reading writing prompts!

Novel Study: The Hunger Games: Post-Reading Response Prompts

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!&nbsp;

Novel Study: The Lightning Thief: Post-Reading Response Prompts

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Argument and Claims

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the major themes and events from The Giver.

Novel Study: The Giver: Post-Reading Response Prompts

After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, give students the chance to reflect on the novel and respond in writing to five of these post-reading prompts.

Novel Study: The Outsiders: Post-Reading Response Prompts

Choose your literary nonfiction response prompt! Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the impact of an author’s word choice.

Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Word Choice

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

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Central Ideas

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

Literary Response Prompt: Story Elements

Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text,

A Misty Copeland Biography

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

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5th - 8th Grade Reading Response Worksheets