Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.

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!

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Use these discussion questions to engage your readers and support their comprehension of chapters 18–23 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver.

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

After reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver, watch the movie adaptation in order to compare the written and visual forms of the story!

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Revolutionary War Vocabulary.

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

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

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

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.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

This Louis Pasteur biography goes over his accomplishments, and includes a bacteria-based science activity at the end!

Your budding historian can learn about the Buffalo Soldiers, the first African American military troops to serve in peacetime.

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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.”

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

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

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

Choose your literary nonfiction response prompt! Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the impact of an author’s word choice.

Introduce your students to two myths from different cultures.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.