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.

The Nez Perce is a Native American tribe in the Northwest U.S. This worksheet will hep your little learner to explore Native American history and culture.

The story is mixed up! Kids will have to look at the pictures and read the words to put the story back in order again.

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.

What type of change will you get? Use this resource with your students to compare and contrast chemical and physical reactions.

In this exercise, EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.

In Aesop's classic fable, a tortoise and a hare race — but the winner may surprise you!

Test comprehension with this fairy tale jumble! Put "The Ugly Duckling" story scenes back in order.

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

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.

Introduce children to physicist Albert Einstein — and a bit of theoretical physics — with this mini biography.

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

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

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

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

In this fun worksheet template, children compose a letter with an extra-special destination: the future!

In this worksheet, children read the story of Parks' act of passive resistance, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on why the boycott was successful, as well as why it inspired the support of so many people around the United States.

Your students will use their imaginations to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Compare and contrast your traits with the character traits of other people.

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