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3rd - 8th Grade Common Core Reading Resources : Page 8

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Book Characters

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech&rsquo;s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Cause and Effect in Walk Two Moons

Learn about what makes certain elements cooler than others in this chemistry-based informational reading passage!&nbsp;

Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: Extraordinary Elements

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes&rsquo;s poem &ldquo;Mother to Son.&rdquo;

Analyzing Poetry: "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes

Ever wonder how the plasma TV came to be? Read a brief history of the television with this ode to inventors.

History of Television

Use this resource to teach your students how to use introductory phrases as they cite text evidence in their answers.

Introductory Phrases: Cite the Evidence

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

Literary Response Prompt: Characters

Introduce students to the concept of using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

Quotes as Evidence #1

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

Evaluating Character Traits: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

Informational Reading Comprehension: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

Movies and Main Ideas

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Find the Main Idea: Elephant

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Writing Workout: Supporting the Main Idea

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

Chapter Summary

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Informational Reading Comprehension: Biography of Fred Korematsu

Read interesting nonfiction texts about natural disasters and practice identifying causes and effects.

Causes and Effects of Natural Disasters

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing&nbsp;two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades!&nbsp;

Compare and Contrast in Poetry: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Still will I harvest beauty where it grows"

What's a metaphor? How do you haiku? Kids will hone reading and writing skills with this book, from a simple syllable counting exercise to inventing rhymes and tangling with the Jabberwocky!

Pick a Peck of Poetry

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading

Use this discussion guide to support students&rsquo; comprehension and analysis of chapters 1&ndash;4 of S.E. Hinton&rsquo;s novel The Outsiders.

Novel Study: The Outsiders: Discussion Guide #1

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

Character Comparison Graphic Organizer

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author&#39;s message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

Make Your Own Inferences

In this exercise, students will work through a series of steps to identify the theme of a classic story.

Rudyard Kipling: What's the Theme?

Students read all about seaweed and answer standards-based comprehension questions in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Informational Reading Comprehension: Sustaining the World With Seaweed

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

Literary Response Prompt: Theme

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1&ndash;38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1

Dr. McSquare is here to help kids learn the scientific method. His reports are all in disarray--can your child sort label each part with the correct step?

Sort Out the Scientific Method #4

After reading the first few chapters of Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with this two-page novel study guide!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Discussion Guide #1

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

Simple Summary Reading Log

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

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