Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by reading about the holiday’s history and imagery!

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 1–4 of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. 

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

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help learners analyze two characters from the book with this creative extension activity!

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

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

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

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 6–11 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Esperanza from Esperanza Rising.

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

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

Use this simple organizer to help students track and record key ideas when reading and summarizing nonfiction texts.

Prepare students for reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle by guiding them through this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity!

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

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

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

Introduce readers to the inspiring poem “Thanksgiving” by American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox with this sixth-grade reading comprehension worksheet.

Help students reflect on chapters 1–4 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

Encourage critical thinking with this discussion guide as students read the next set of Anne’s diary entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Build background knowledge about social classes in the early 1900s as students prepare to read A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the eighth and final part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

Students hone reading comprehension and analysis skills with this adapted excerpt from the first chapter of The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany.

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

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

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

Have students compare and contrast fictional and historical accounts with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!