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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After reading the first few chapters of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with this two-page novel study guide!

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Practice analyzing poetry with one of Emily Dickinson’s most popular poems!

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

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

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

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.

This graphic organizer provides an opportunity to keep track of key vocabulary words they encounter within an informational text.

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.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

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

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

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

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.