This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–5 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Before reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, use this pre-reading activity to get readers thinking about one of the major themes in the novel: stereotypes.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

In this worksheet, learners will practice planning and writing a compelling persuasive paragraph on the topic of social media.

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

Celebrate Earth Day with an engaging word search activity that reinforces spelling skills!

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

Students practice differentiating between gerund phrases, infinitive phrases, and participial phrases in this grammar worksheet!

Use this graphic organizer to give students an opportunity to practice identifying the central idea of a text using key details.

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Enjoy fall-themed hink pink riddles with this fun word puzzle worksheet! 

In this revising and editing worksheet, students will rewrite a paragraph using correct capitalization and punctuation.

During this fun activity, students practice creating and reading multisyllabic words with R-controlled vowels.

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 1–4 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

Explore spring-themed hink pink riddles with this fun word puzzle worksheet! 

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.

Students practice informational reading comprehension skills while learning all about the national artistic tradition of azulejo tiles!

Learners will use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of common allusions.

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

Help your beginning writer become an excellent essay-writer with this helpful proofreading practice sheet.

Learn all about the history of candles with this two-page nonfiction reading worksheet!

Students will read 10 examples and determine if they are sentences or fragments, then rewrite the fragments to form complete sentences.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

What does it all mean? In this sixth-grade worksheet, students will practice using text evidence to identify the theme of a story they've read recently.

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

If some of these lyrics sound familiar, that's because America the Beautiful is a famous national song! Learn all of the lyrics with this worksheet.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.