Learn about what makes certain elements cooler than others in this chemistry-based informational reading passage! 

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

After reading the first few chapters of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with this two-page novel study guide!

Use this worksheet to help your students understand patriotic songs, like an older national anthem.

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 5–8 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

Read interesting nonfiction texts about natural disasters and practice identifying causes and effects.

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Introduce readers to the poem “Impressions” by American poet Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson with this eighth-grade reading comprehension worksheet.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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.

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

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.

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

Analyze different points of views and perspectives in a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

Hone reading comprehension and analysis skills with this worksheet featuring a French fairy tale about a prince, a curse, and the importance of recognizing one's own flaws.

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 1–4 of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. 

Read and analyze a classic example of historical fiction with this adapted excerpt from Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper!

Use this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women to help your middle schooler analyze plot development!

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

After completing S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, allow students to connect to the theme of identity with this engaging reflection activity! 

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

Learn about Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, a Chinese-American suffragist, activist, and minister of the early 20th century with this reading comprehension worksheet!

This graphic organizer provides an opportunity to keep track of key vocabulary words they encounter within an informational text.

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Help students reflect on chapters 1–4 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!