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

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

What if you met a snake who could make you rich? Enjoy one of the classic Panchatantra stories, animal fables from India that have a moral lesson.

Children build their understanding of synonyms in this SEL-meets-vocabulary worksheet.

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.

Young readers practice analyzing characters in a work of fiction with this five-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Practice identifying hyperboles in this spring-themed maze designed for middle-grade students!

Explore figurative language in context with this personification worksheet designed for fifth through eigth graders! 

Explore the sights and sounds of the prairie with this fourth- and fifth-grade reading-comprehension activity!

Predict what will happen during the championship game with this middle-grade worksheet all about foreshadowing!

Children to identify the theme of a story from the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of Indian animal fables.

Discover how myths explain the origins of the world with this fifth- and sixth-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.

Flex those creative writing skills by starting a story in a few different ways! Use the picture as a prompt, and use each technique to start a story.

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

If you're looking for an exciting genre, then mystery might just be the one for you!

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, summer-themed figurative language maze!

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with this worksheet featuring summer-themed similes!

Students will practice using pronouns to support their understanding of point of view.

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

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Use this classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson to introduce students to onomatopoeia.

Compare and contrast characters with this clever fifth-grade graphic organizer!

A Christmas Carol characters include Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley. Learn about A Christmas Carol characters with this festive worksheet.

Read a classic fable, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", with your young reader.

You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.