Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

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

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

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.

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

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

Get your students excited about making text connections!

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

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.

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

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

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

Watch Louis Sachar’s Holes come to life in the movie adaptation!