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.

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by reading about the holiday’s history and imagery!

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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.

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

Help students match information about text features together in this review worksheet!

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point.

Make reading practice fun with this reading comprehension packet, based on Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".

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

In this exercise, EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

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

What if you met a snake who could make you rich? Enjoy one of the classic Panchatantra stories, animal fables from India that have a moral lesson.

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

Any kid studying the American Revolution will likely have to memorize this famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow!

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!

In this exercise, students will work through a series of steps to identify the theme of a classic story.

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

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

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

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool sea turtle facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Unwrap the history behind a spooky Halloween favorite: mummies! With this reading worksheet, your child will learn all about mummies.

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

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

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

Engage in some sneaky warfare with the tale of the Trojan Horse, one of the most legendary Greek myths ever told.

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