Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

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

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

America gets its name from Amerigo Vespucci. Kids will learn about this important historical figure with this fun worksheet.

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

Using this worksheet template, students plan their work by filling out a plot diagram with their story's exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and climax.

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

The Philadelphia Campaign was a year of battles with the Americans at Valley Forge. Students will hone reading skills and learn about the American Revolution.

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Analyze the impact an author’s words can have on the meaning and tone of a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

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

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.

Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

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

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

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Use these questions to encourage critical thinking and support literacy development as students read the first few diary entries of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

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.

Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.