Get your students excited about making text connections!

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

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.

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

These fun dog-themed worksheets will help fifth graders practice their reading comprehension skills.

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

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Explore the major themes of your reading assignment by making a book poster. Don't forget the tagline!

After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, let students use their creativity to model the two main settings from the story!

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

After reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Does an octopus have 8 tentacles? Test your fact and opinion identification skills with this colorful undersea adventure.

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

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

Historic novels are rich sources of reading practice and this graphic organizer is a nod to prairie classics like those written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Learn about school uniforms around the world as students are going back to school!

This worksheet is a great way to record students’ thinking as they recall and retell a story.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Writing nonfiction can be a daunting task for newbies, but this note-taking sheet contains helpful prompts that keep your young writer on track.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.