These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

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.

Keep this study aid handy during homework time, or keep a copy in the back of your binder for classroom reference.

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but they'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

Continue the wild ride with part two of this fun Peter Pan series. Your child will enjoy this exciting passage from Peter Pan while learning new words.

Encourage students to analyze a vocabulary word with this simple and effective graphic organizer!

This fun Peter Pan series flies into part three with this worksheet. Have your child read the passage from Peter Pan and complete the vocabulary challenge.

Deepen your students’ literary comprehension by comparing texts within a genre.

Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

This worksheet will help your students determine whether they can construct a solid argument around a claim they have made about a story.

Does your student have two different stories to compare and contrast? This worksheet provides a blank Venn diagram with lines to help facilitate analysis.

Leap into the budding spring season with this delightful poetry analysis worksheet!

Students will note details of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Read this passage about a rainy spring break to boost your character analysis skills!

Check students’ understanding and analysis of chapters 13 through 28 of Louis Sachar’s Holes with this discussion guide!

Let your little film-lover give the thumbs up or down! In the role of the movie critic, he'll practice critical thinking through film analysis.

Flip your way to finding the mean, median and mode of these Olympic scores! Practice basic data analysis, and then put the information in a bar graph.

Jump over the hurdles of math by learning mode, median and mean. Use knowledge of data analysis to put each country's scores in a graph and award the winners!

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

Let uncertainty about your poetry analysis skills fall away as you spring into this charming poem about the seasons!

Read, reflect, and uncover the lesson behind the story with this fourth- and fifth-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

Is your child having trouble figuring out his summer reading? Have him write a couple "slam book" entries from the POV of some of the characters.

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

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