6th Grade Reading Resources : Page 2

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

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.

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

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

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

Students practice informational reading comprehension skills while learning all about the national artistic tradition of azulejo tiles!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

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

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

When students finish reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

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!

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

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

Prepare students for reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan by accessing and building background knowledge with this pre-reading activity!

Analyze the impact an author’s words can have on the meaning and tone of a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

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

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

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions after students read chapters 1–6 of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief.