Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading and writing worksheet.

Young readers will enjoy reflecting on a recent book with this engaging template.

Children keep track of their weekday reading with this useful two-page template.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

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

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

Writing nonfiction can be a daunting task for newbies, but this note-taking sheet contains helpful prompts that keep your young writer on track.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

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

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

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

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Help your young reader hone evaluation skills with this worksheet that challenges guides learner to write a book review.

This worksheet will have your child read a brief passage, and then decide on his favorite part.

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Help your 2nd grader compare and contrast their own traits to their favorite book character's traits with this graphic organizer.