After finishing the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, give students a chance to “transmit” a memory of their own with this creative extension project! 

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

After reading the last sections of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with these questions!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Select a topic that interests you, then learn about it from a variety of sources, such as books, websites, and articles.

The Underground Railroad aided thousands of enslaved Americans on the road to freedom. Students will learn about the leaders of this movement.

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

What happens when you have a foolish friend? Introduce your stellar reader to the Panchatantra stories, animal fables with a moral lesson.

Study the contributions of African American jazz legends with this worksheet on master bassist Charles Mingus.

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.

After completing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

Use this reading guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about the final chapters of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

In this Court Cases worksheet, students read descriptions of five landmark decisions, then match them to their correct name.

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 9–14 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water. 

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

Students will strengthen their reading comprehension with this challenging text and the accompanying questions.

Use these engaging discussion prompts to support literacy development as students read the next set of entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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

Use this organizer to draw comparisons between problems and solutions in fiction texts.

After finishing Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, readers reflect on the major elements of the story with these writing prompts.

Upon finishing The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, readers compare the written and visual forms of the story in this extension activity!

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Get ready for a ghostly reading activity! Here's a Halloween sheet that will teach your child all about ghosts and the history behind these spooks.

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

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.