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

Young readers will enjoy reflecting on a recent book with this engaging template.

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.

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

Children keep track of their weekday reading with this useful two-page template.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

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.

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.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

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

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.

Help your students prepare to write about their favorite book with this opinion writing organizer. This handy worksheet breaks down opinion writing into easy-to-follow steps that will have your kids writing persuasive essays with ease in no time.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

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

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.

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

Give your students practice in catching the reader's attention by using a strong hook in their writing!

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.