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Use this simple organizer to help students track and record key ideas when reading and summarizing nonfiction texts.

Practice summarizing a numerical data set with this one-page statistics worksheet! 

Differentiate learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

Individualize middle-grade learning experiences with this fun reading response choice board!

Give blossoming authors a chance to practice their creative writing skills with this realistic fiction writing prompt and standards-based rubric.

This graphic organizer provides an opportunity to keep track of key vocabulary words they encounter within an informational text.

Students read the primary-source text of the first 10 amendments and summarize each one using their own words.

Use this graphic organizer to give students an opportunity to practice identifying the central idea of a text using key details.

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing and evaluating the structure of a nonfiction text.

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.

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page worksheet!

In this seventh-grade ELA worksheet, students read a fascinating informational text about the history of kites and answer comprehension questions covering a variety of reading skills. 

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

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 19–25 of Anne of Green Gables.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 26–33 of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–8 of Anne of Green Gables.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 9–18 of Anne of Green Gables.

Encourage critical thinking and support your students’ literacy development by asking questions as they read the final chapters of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Introduce students to some wild and weird types of lightning with this fascinating reading comprehension worksheet!

Inspire middle-grade learners with this biography of Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space!

Help students boost their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills with this making inferences graphic organizer.

Tell your own story about a mysterious carnival with this creative writing prompt!

In this printable two-player game, learners practice graphing points in four quadrants of the coordinate plane and calling out ordered pairs.

Learn about the origins of Women’s History Month in this middle school social studies worksheet!

Meet the curious mongoose Rikki-tikki-tavi in this sixth-grade reading comprehension worksheet adapted from the classic Rudyard Kipling tale.

In Reading Comprehension: The Adventure Begins, learners will read an engaging one-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions about the text. 

Students practice essential reading comprehension skills in this worksheet that features a passage about a boy who takes hang gliding lessons and becomes airborne for the first time.

Students read an original two-page story and answer questions to boost essential reading comprehension skills.