After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

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

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

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help learners analyze two characters from the book with this creative extension activity!

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

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

Watch Louis Sachar’s Holes come to life in the movie adaptation!

Get to know the true story of the midnight ride and the start of the American Revolution with this historical graphic novel.

Engage your creative side with this musical companion activity to a unit on Louis Sachar’s Holes!

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Give students the opportunity to think creatively about Louis Sachar’s Holes after they’re done reading!

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

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

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

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

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

Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

Students will then popular upper grade novel titles and determine the strategies those authors used to grab readers' attention.

Challenge your student to write something out of the norm! Get creative and write a screenplay based on the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

It’s fun to think about the future! In this activity, students write a persuasive paragraph about what they need to learn in order to make their dreams come true.

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.

Prepare students for reading The Great Fire by facilitating a picture walk through the first chapters’ images, pictures, and maps.

When students finish reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

After completing Jim Murphy’s book The Great Fire, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

After reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help learners make connections between the book and their community with this engaging extension activity.

A.J. and C.K. are at it again! If your child is into comics or graphic novels, they're sure to love this do-it-yourself comic adventure.

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.

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

Children are introduced to four inspiring members of the civil rights movement in this engaging social studies worksheet.