After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

After reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help learners make connections between the book and their community with this engaging extension activity.

After completing Jim Murphy’s book The Great Fire, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Prepare students for reading The Great Fire by facilitating a picture walk through the first chapters’ images, pictures, and maps.

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

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students begin reading The Great Fire.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students continue reading The Great Fire.

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

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

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

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

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

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Anne Shirley from L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.

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

Differentiate learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

Individualize middle-grade learning experiences with this fun reading response choice board!

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

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

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

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

Help students reflect on chapters 5–8 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Help students reflect on chapters 9–12 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Upon finishing The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, readers compare the written and visual forms of the story in this extension activity!

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 19–25 of Anne of Green Gables.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 26–33 of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.

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

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!
 

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–8 of Anne of Green Gables.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 9–18 of Anne of Green Gables.