This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

Using this worksheet template, students plan their work by filling out a plot diagram with their story's exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and climax.

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

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

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

The Philadelphia Campaign was a year of battles with the Americans at Valley Forge. Students will hone reading skills and learn about the American Revolution.

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

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

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.

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.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

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.

Beginning readers, enjoy this passage from Twain's classic "The Prince and the Pauper" and then complete some vocabulary and comprehension questions.

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

Read interesting nonfiction texts about natural disasters and practice identifying causes and effects.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

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.

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons.

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?