Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s 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!

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

This blank comic strip worksheet is the perfect canvas on which students can experiment with the graphic novel format.

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.

Read this passage from Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden, and practice identifying the parts of speech you see.

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