Imagine being around in colonial America. If you were reporting about the American Revolution what would you have said about the times?

Use these discussion questions to engage students in thoughtful dialogue as they read chapters 9-12 of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising!

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

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

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool weedy seadragon facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African American jazz legends! Here’s a page on Thelonious Monk, the first name in the modern jazz movement.

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

Special effects in movies have been around almost as long as movies themselves. These worksheets introduce kids to the early filmmaker, Georges Méliès.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool catfish facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Children will use their creative writing skills to continue the story in this fiction writing exercise.

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

Here is a writing activity to review terms and concepts from the Civil War era. Your child will imagine being a soldier in the war and write a journal entry.

Here's a language arts worksheet that's sure to boost reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Hang out with two seriously challenged love birds, the god Cupid and his human girlfriend Psyche.

This graphic organizer helps your students examine descriptive adjectives and nouns.

If the zombie outbreak happens, will you be prepared? Help your child familiarize with disaster preparedness through the lens of a zompocalypse!

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

In this worksheet students will be challenged to compare and contrast the effects of different weather phenomena.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 26–33 of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

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.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

Read this passage from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and get both reading and writing practice in one fell swoop.

Tap into your students’ creativity by challenging them to create an infographic using content from their reading!

Learn more about Julia Morgan, the woman who designed her way into California history, and also practice reading informational paragraphs.

Neverland: an imaginary place where your child never grows up. Have him read this passage from the story of Peter Pan and draw his own Neverland.

After finishing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, give students a chance to nurture their imaginations with this creative extension activity!

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool piano facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.