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

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons.

This graphic organizer provides an opportunity to keep track of key vocabulary words they encounter within an informational text.

Introduce learners to the American advocate Dorothea Dix with this three-page informational reading comprehension worksheet.

Hone reading comprehension and analysis skills with this worksheet featuring a French fairy tale about a prince, a curse, and the importance of recognizing one's own flaws.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Children learn about Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the United States, in this Finding the Main Idea worksheet.

Use this simple organizer to help students track and record key ideas when reading and summarizing nonfiction texts.

Read about the history of the Winchester Mystery House, and then answer some comprehension questions.

Help your writing sing with personification! Practice identifying the different examples of personification in this poem by Emily Dickinson.

Young readers practice analyzing characters in a work of fiction with this five-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

This ELA-focused choice board is perfect for supporting independence and encouraging students to practice their reading skills, build reading fluency, and boost reading comprehension.

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

Learn all about hurricanes in this earth science Q&A.

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

In this worksheet, kids find the titles of well-loved children’s stories — and match them to the sequence of emojis that describe them.

Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

Students will use an adjective word bank to help them identify statements of fact and opinion.

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

What is the purpose of a narwhal tusk? Explore some interesting new findings about the narwhal, also known as the unicorn whale.

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."