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.

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.

Learn more about the life of Anne Frank, a tragic, true-life story of a young girl caught up in the horrors of war.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

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

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

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.

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

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

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

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

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

These fun dog-themed worksheets will help fifth graders practice their reading comprehension skills.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a literary text with this middle school writing worksheet.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

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

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

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

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.

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

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

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