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

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

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

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.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

What if Peter Rabbit met the White Rabbit in Wonderland? Writing practice starts with a fun coloring page, what happens next is up to your child to write!

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.

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.

What if Paul Bunyan stepped into the "Jack and the Beanstalk" story? Make writing practice creative and fun for your child with a coloring page story starter.

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

Compare and contrast characters with this clever fifth-grade graphic organizer!

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

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Don’t just read nonfiction—learn from and engage with it in this graphic organizer!

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

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Discover more about the dingo, a type of wild dog that lives in Australia, in this worksheet.

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

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

What would happen if Peter Pan invited Robin Hood to Neverland? A fun coloring page scene starts your young writer out!

Use this worksheet to learn Cassowary facts, and introduce your child to an exotic species of bird from Down Under.

After completing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

After completing the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

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

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, reflect on T.J. Avery’s decisions and consequences with this extension activity.