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.

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.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

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

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

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

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading and writing worksheet.

Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

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

Use analysis skills to better understand your favorite character in this worksheet!

Watch Louis Sachar’s Holes come to life in the movie adaptation!

Give students the opportunity to think creatively about Louis Sachar’s Holes after they’re done reading!

Engage your creative side with this musical companion activity to a unit on Louis Sachar’s Holes!