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

Make vocabulary practice fun with this literary terms crossword puzzle, that introduces kids to words and concepts like mood, metaphor, and irony.

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

Students can use this template to generate a topic for a literary argument essay by considering a story they have read.

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.

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but they'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

Continue the wild ride with part two of this fun Peter Pan series. Your child will enjoy this exciting passage from Peter Pan while learning new words.

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

Encourage students to analyze a vocabulary word with this simple and effective graphic organizer!

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.

This template will walk writers through the process of composing an argument essay.

Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

This worksheet will help your students determine whether they can construct a solid argument around a claim they have made about a story.

Does your student have two different stories to compare and contrast? This worksheet provides a blank Venn diagram with lines to help facilitate analysis.

Leap into the budding spring season with this delightful poetry analysis worksheet!

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Children read a classic fable with an eye toward character analysis in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

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

There are many different ways to start a story! Hone creativity and build knowledge about literary devices with these fun story starting prompts.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

While learning about literary genres, if you're suddenly being approached by magical little men and menacing monsters, you have been swept away into fantasy.

Read this passage about a rainy spring break to boost your character analysis skills!

Check students’ understanding and analysis of chapters 13 through 28 of Louis Sachar’s Holes with this discussion guide!

In what literary genre does Alice in Wonderland lie? Read this passage and see if you can use the clues in it to decide for yourself.

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.