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

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Learn all about wildfires, a natural phenomenon looked upon with awe and caution.

Use this exercise to give your students practice using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

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

This graphic organizer can help students analyze a story, scenario, disagreement or controversy from multiple perspectives.

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

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

What are the effects of storms and other weather events? Students will create flow charts that represent the multiple effects that are a result of specific weather causes.

Poor Odysseus was just trying to get home when he ran into the Cyclops monster. Find all about it in this epic Greek myth!

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

Kids who are just starting to read nonfiction can get their feet wet with this easy Julia Child biography that has a quick comprehension exercise at the end.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

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

Use this worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

"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.

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

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

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.

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.