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

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.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the major themes and events from The Giver.

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.

These fun dog-themed worksheets will help fifth graders practice their reading comprehension skills.

Learn more about the life of Anne Frank, a tragic, true-life story of a young girl caught up in the horrors of war.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

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

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

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! 

After completing the novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts! 

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

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!

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.

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.”

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.

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the author’s use of language and literary devices in this literary response worksheet.

Engage readers with a colorful artistic extension activity to go along with The Giver by Lois Lowry!

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, students demonstrate their understanding of the novel with these post-reading response prompts.

Explore the major themes of your reading assignment by making a book poster. Don't forget the tagline!

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.