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.

Engage readers with an exciting musical extension activity to be completed after they've finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry!

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 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.

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

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

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

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book with this thoughtful extension activity! 

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a literary text with this middle school writing worksheet.

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

After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, let students use their creativity to model the two main settings from the story!

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

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

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a poem or drama in this worksheet for middle school learners.

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

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, students give thought to the various settings in the story with this creative post-reading prompt!

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.

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.

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.

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.