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

Literary Essay Graphic Organizer

Make vocabulary practice fun with this literary terms crossword puzzle, that introduces kids to words and concepts like mood, metaphor, and irony.

Literary Terms Crossword Puzzle

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

Practice Writing a Strong Lead: Literary Essay

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

How to Cite Strong Evidence: Literary Response

Reading and writing: You can't have one without the other! Get familiar with every facet of literature in this workbook. It's packed with literary analysis activities.

Reading Like a Writer, Writing Like a Reader

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.

Crafting a Thesis Statement: Literary Essay Writing

This lesson will help your young writers develop a claim, or thesis, and construct an argument around it. You may have students complete the essay by continuing the process with the lesson Literary Argument Writing: Drafting Your Essay.




Literary Argument Writing: Defining Your Topic

Keep this study aid handy during homework time, or keep a copy in the back of your binder for classroom reference.

Literary Terms

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but they'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

Peter Pan Analysis 1

This worksheet offers students extra practice in recognizing corresponding texts and audiences.

Audience Analysis

Young readers dip their toes into character analysis with this fun graphic organizer.

Describe a Character

This literary lesson has students delving into Emily Dickinson's "The Moon was but a Chin of Gold" to find different types of figurative language. Writers will love sharpening reading comprehension skills with this poetry analysis activity.

Poetry: Figurative Language

Encourage students to analyze a vocabulary word with this simple and effective&nbsp;graphic organizer!

Vocabulary Toolkit: Vocabulary Analysis

Once students have selected a topic related to a piece of literature they have read and mapped out their argument, this lesson will help them turn their prewriting into an essay. 

Literary Argument: Drafting Your Essay

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Thinking About Characters: Literary Response

Help inspire your little writer with a fun prompt! They'll use their favorite song as fuel for beginning poetry analysis.

Your Favorite Song

Deepen your students’ literary comprehension by comparing texts within a genre.

Comparing Texts: Separate Traits of a Sub-Genre

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Find the Central Message: Literary Response

Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

Thinking About Themes: Reflection Cards

This worksheet will help your students determine whether they can construct a solid argument around a claim they have made about a story.

Literary Argument Writing: Supporting Your Claim

Students will note details of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Common Themes Between Fiction Texts

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Common Topics Between Fiction Texts

Squeeze in some extra practice in word analysis, spelling, and punctuation with these engaging grammar worksheets.

Vocabulary Boosters

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.

Best Friends Forever Literary Response

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Head to Head Fiction: Protagonists and Challenges

Children read a classic fable with an eye toward character analysis in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Evaluating Character Traits: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Similes

This Shakespeare biography, written for kids, teaches young readers, writers and thespians all about the literary giant.

Shakespeare Biography

Reading without the bah-humbugs: take a look at "A Christmas Carol" with story pages young readers can bring to life with color, and step-by-step analysis pages to get them thinking.

A Christmas Carol For Young Readers

There are many different ways to start a story! Hone creativity and build knowledge about literary devices with these fun story starting prompts.

Different Ways to Start a Story

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