After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, give students this fun artistic assignment as an extension activity! 

This reading and writing worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop motion effects.

After completing the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

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

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing and evaluating the structure of a nonfiction text.

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

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

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

The silent film era featured creative storytelling techniques like miming and slapstick. Read and write about silent film era classics like Charlie Chaplin.

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

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.

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, encourage students to examine the novel's setting with this creative writing worksheet! 

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

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.

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.

If your kid loves the book Bridge to Terabithia, he might enjoy its movie adaptation. He'll have fun reading and watching while honing his analytical skills.

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, reflect on T.J. Avery’s decisions and consequences with this extension activity.

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.

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.

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

After completing Walter Lord’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.

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

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

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

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

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

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

Children are invited to come up with a new ending to a book they have read in this inventive fan fiction worksheet template.

Using the brothers from Ender's Game, our writing worksheet gives your child the opportunity to examine any rivalries between him and his siblings or friends.