Prepare students for reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind with these research and reflection prompts!

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

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

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

Learn more about the life of Anne Frank, a tragic, true-life story of a young girl caught up in the horrors of war.

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

After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, give students the chance to reflect on the novel and respond in writing to five of these post-reading prompts.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the major themes and events from The Giver.

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.

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

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

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

After students read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, have them compare and contrast the greasers and the Socs using this two-page novel study extension activity!

In this activity, your child will get the chance to adapt a favorite book for the stage or screen.

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.

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

After completing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, have students reflect on the significant themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

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

After reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, students reflect on the major themes and events of Anne’s story with these response prompts.

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 choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

After reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, have students reflect on the novel and record their responses to these post-reading writing prompts!