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

You decide what's happening on the page by drawing and writing it in!

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

Readers will reinforce their understanding of key narrative features in this writing exercise.

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Decode common abbreviations in this upper elementary worksheet!

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

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!
 

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

Lead students’ dialogue on the first 12 chapters of Louis Sachar’s Holes with this helpful discussion guide!

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

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

Use these thought-provoking prompts to reflect on the plot, characters, and themes in Louis Sachar’s Holes!

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.