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!

Engage readers with an exciting musical extension activity to be completed after they've finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry!

After finishing the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, give students a chance to “transmit” a memory of their own with this creative extension project! 

Engage readers with a colorful artistic extension activity to go along with The Giver by Lois Lowry!

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, encourage students to examine the novel's setting with this creative writing worksheet! 

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

Prepare students for reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind with these research and reflection prompts!

After completing Walter Lord’s book A Night to Remember, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, give students the chance to reflect on the novel and respond in writing to five of these post-reading prompts.

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.”

After completing Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, help learners connect with the book with this community-based extension activity! 

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book with this thoughtful extension activity! 

After reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, have students reflect on the novel and record their responses to these post-reading writing prompts!

After finishing Walter Lord’s A Night to Remember, give readers a chance to act as a reporter in order to share the story with the public!

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, students demonstrate their understanding of the novel with these post-reading response prompts.

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

After reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, students reflect on the major themes and events of Anne’s story with these response prompts.

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

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a literary text with this middle school writing worksheet.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the author’s use of language and literary devices in this literary response worksheet.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

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

Choose your literary nonfiction response prompt! Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the impact of an author’s word choice.

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.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a poem or drama in this worksheet for middle school learners.

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.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing and evaluating the structure of a nonfiction text.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

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

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!