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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

Draw a picture of the beginning, middle, and end of this well-loved poem.

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

Flip through a story flipbook with your child, a great way to teach about beginning, middle and end.

Inspire middle-grade learners with this biography of Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space!

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

Go on a reading adventure with Sinbad the Sailor, a hero of Middle Eastern myth and a great excuse to practice reading comprehension.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

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

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades! 

Students learn to retell familiar stories by sharing about one of their favorite books. Students will share important details from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

Bring your predictions to life in this fun activity! Students will make predictions about a book and then act out what they think will happen in the beginning, middle, and end.

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.

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

The Humpty Dumpty story cards are mixed up and don’t make sense. Ask your students to solve this case by cutting the cards out and putting them in order from beginning, to the middle, and the end.

Have students consider a character’s attributes and actions with this cute and memorable organizer! After reading a book, students will draw a picture and describe the characters. Then they'll summarize the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.