Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

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

Meet the mythical Captain Stormalong, a sturdy sailor who's said to have conquered the high seas.

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Learn about the climate, fauna, and flora of these high-altitude biomes, then review what you've learned with a quick sentence-matching activity.

Visit the crashing waters of the mighty Iguazú Falls in this middle school passage!

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

Discover the fascinating history of New Mexico’s Sky City in this middle school worksheet!

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

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.

Challenge your middle school student with a quiz about the Civil War! They'll answer questions about important people and places in the Civil War.

How many of our presidents can you name? Challenge your middle school student with this great series of match-up games, featuring U.S. presidents!

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.

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son.”

Dig deep into the geography of Chile while practicing important informational reading comprehension skills with this middle school worksheet!

Introduce readers to the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Use this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women to help your middle schooler analyze plot development!

Read this timeless poem by Jane Taylor aloud to your child. Work together to identify and circle the rhyming words.

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

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.

Use this resource about a girl who puts herself in another person’s shoes. Your students will identify the point of view in which the story is told, and they will determine their own point of view about parts of the text.

In Reading Comprehension: The Adventure Begins, learners will read an engaging one-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions about the text. 

This Mary Had a Little Lamb coloring page depicts a heartwarming scene from the famous nursery rhyme.

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