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.

On a dark and story night... Spookify your storytelling time with some scary story cards!

Children practice parts of speech as they learn about this special poetry genre.

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

Use this template to plan and create an original comic.

Inspire learners to think and write creatively with this fun writing prompt about an Earth Day discovery!

Your little writer will use his imagination to bend time and space with this creative writing prompt. Where will he go and what will he see?

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

This handy checklist helps your students identify all of the necessary components of an effective persuasive letter.

How can you care for your community? Get students thinking deeply with this engaging Ramadan-themed writing prompt!

How do stories of endurance and hope impact us? Inspire students to think deeply with this Passover-themed writing prompt!

Let's write a pretend newspaper article! Here's a silly way for your child to look at telling a story the way it might be written for a newspaper.

What will happen to this cave-man? Your 5th grader can decide by writing a creative and exciting story to go with this illustration.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Esperanza from Esperanza Rising.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Young writers set off on the right foot with this realistic fiction graphic organizer.

In this worksheet, children read an example of a bio poem for jazz musician Thelonious Monk, then use the prompt to create a bio poem for a person of their choosing.

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

Practicing poets can refine their sense of meter and rhythm with this worksheet about stressed and unstressed syllables.

In this worksheet, children read about the March on Washington, the ideals that inspired it,  and the people who attended it.

Help your students organize their notes as they conduct research for their informational writing.

Get students thinking deeply with this spring-themed writing prompt about new beginnings!

For kids just entering the world of research and report-writing, here's a handy reference guide on how to write a bibliography.

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

This worksheet, which reads like riddles, will expose your learners to important abolitionists in the African American community.

Give your students some practice writing an informational essay about the American Revolution!

Students will craft their own essay using this graphic organizer as a helpful way to get started.