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

Part 2: Using Your Text Connections in a Thinking Paragraph

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.

Biography of Wangari Maathai

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a poem or drama in this worksheet for middle school learners.

Literary Response Prompt: Form and Structure in Poetry and Drama

Choose your literary nonfiction response prompt! Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the impact of an author’s word choice.

Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Word Choice

After completing Walter Lord&rsquo;s book A Night to Remember, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Book Study: A Night to Remember: Post-Reading Response Prompts

After reading&nbsp;Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, students reflect on the major themes and events of Anne&rsquo;s story with these response prompts.

Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Post-Reading Response Prompts

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Making Connections Tic-Tac-Toe

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

Reading Response Letter Interactive

Give your students practice in catching the reader's attention by using a strong hook in their writing!

Catch Your Reader's Attention

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.

Featured Character Postcard

Engage readers with an exciting musical extension activity to be completed after they&#39;ve finished reading&nbsp;The Giver by Lois Lowry!

Novel Study: The Giver: Playlist for Jonas

After reading Jim Murphy&#39;s novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

Book Study: The Great Fire: One Year After The Fire

Engage readers with a colorful artistic extension activity to go along with The Giver by Lois Lowry!

Novel Study: The Giver: Before and After Colors

After completing Linda Sue Park&#39;s novel A Long Walk to Water, help learners&nbsp;connect with the book with this community-based extension activity!&nbsp;

Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water: Community Project

After finishing Madeleine L&rsquo;Engle&rsquo;s A Wrinkle in Time, choose one of Mrs Who&#39;s quotes to research, reflect on, and design a bumper sticker around.

Novel Study: A Wrinkle in Time: Famous Quotes

After finishing Madeleine L&rsquo;Engle&rsquo;s A Wrinkle in Time, readers reflect on the theme of individuality vs. conformity in this fun post-reading activity.&nbsp;

Novel Study: A Wrinkle in Time: Dare to Be Different

After finishing the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, give students a chance to &ldquo;transmit&rdquo; a memory of their own with this creative extension project!&nbsp;

Novel Study: The Giver: Memories Multimedia Project

After completing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

Novel Study: Anne of Green Gables: Post-Reading Response Prompts

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

Writing About Reading Assessment: Let's Soar in Grade 4

After finishing Madeleine L&rsquo;Engle&rsquo;s A Wrinkle in Time, students give thought to the various settings in the story with this creative post-reading prompt!

Novel Study: A Wrinkle in Time: Greetings From the Universe 

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

Reading Response Letter Checklist

After finishing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, students take inspiration from the main character as they rename people and places in their lives.

Novel Study: Anne of Green Gables: The Name Game

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

Literature Response Reflection Cards

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

The Main Event

After finishing Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, readers reflect on the major elements of the story with these writing prompts.

Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Post-Reading Response Prompts

After reading Suzanne Collins&#39; The Hunger Games, have students reflect on the novel and record their responses to these post-reading writing prompts!

Novel Study: The Hunger Games: Post-Reading Response Prompts

Read about the Wampus Cat, a famous Tennessee legend. Test comprehension as your child reads about some of the sightings.

Wampus Cat

After reading Linda Sue Park&#39;s novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book with this thoughtful extension activity!&nbsp;

Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water: Letter From Nya

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

Reading Response Letter Format

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

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