Readers will delight in this first (worst) day of school story, and practice cause and effect with this funny worksheet.

Introduce students to nonfiction genres in their school or local library!

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

Put a personalized twist on the old-school bookmark and your young reader will make the experience more fun for themselves by reviewing the book as they go.

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.

Children put their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution to the test with this simple quiz!

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

Read this passage from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and get both reading and writing practice in one fell swoop.

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!