Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparative and Superlative.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Enjoy a heartwarming, childhood classic, The Velveteen Rabbit! Your little one will love coloring these storybook pages as she reads.

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.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–5 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Frederick Douglass, an influential African American writer and abolitionist.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Get your feet wet with this one-page reading comprehension worksheet on the challenging sport of artistic swimming!

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 1–4 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

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

Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 1–4 of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. 

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

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

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

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

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

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 1–8 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Ivan from The One and Only Ivan.

Help your students with their reading fluency using this fun worksheet.

Learn about one of the most famous composers (and one of the first musicians to be known by only one name), Ludwig van Beethoven, in this biography of his life.