6th and 7th Grade Reading Resources : Page 2

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

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

Introduce students to some wild and weird types of lightning with this fascinating reading comprehension worksheet!

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades! 

Help your writing sing with personification! Practice identifying the different examples of personification in this poem by Emily Dickinson.

Students read an excerpt adapted from L. Frank Baum’s short story “The Girl Who Owned a Bear” and answer reading comprehension questions about the text.

Prepare students for reading Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by building background knowledge about the rise of Hitler in Germany after World War I.

Practice analyzing characters with this worksheet that features an excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. 

Compare and contrast two scenes from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this graphic organizer to give students an opportunity to practice identifying the central idea of a text using key details.

Learn all about the history of candles with this two-page nonfiction reading worksheet!

Introduce learners to the American advocate Dorothea Dix with this three-page informational reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Introduce learners to three inspiring indigenous women with this four-page reading comprehension worksheet!

This four-page worksheet gives students a chance to engage deeply with a rigorous nonfiction text about government funding for space exploration.

Students practice essential reading comprehension skills in this worksheet that features a passage about a boy who takes hang gliding lessons and becomes airborne for the first time.

Meet the curious mongoose Rikki-tikki-tavi in this sixth-grade reading comprehension worksheet adapted from the classic Rudyard Kipling tale.

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

Students read all about seaweed and answer standards-based comprehension questions in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Students read an original two-page story and answer questions to boost essential reading comprehension skills.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners compare and contrast two poems, focusing on structure, tone, and literary devices used in each.

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

What does it all mean? In this sixth-grade worksheet, students will practice using text evidence to identify the theme of a story they've read recently.

Use this original fiction story to give learners practice analyzing story elements, making inferences, and growing their vocabulary using context clues and word relationships.

Help your students learn to analyze characters in literature with the help of this graphic organizer.

Unravel a classic story from Greek mythology with this two-page reading comprehension worksheet for seventh and eighth-grade learners!

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Help students boost their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills with this making inferences graphic organizer.

Build your reading stamina and comprehension skills with this worksheet based on “Ashputtel,” the Grimm Brothers’ version of another famous fairy tale.