Use this discussion guide to engage learners in meaningful dialogue after they've read chapters 14–18 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. 

Before reading Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk to Water, use these pre-reading prompts to engage students in a discussion about key story elements.

After reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, students reflect on the major themes and events of Anne’s story with these response prompts.

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, students give thought to the various settings in the story with this creative post-reading prompt!

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.

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book with this thoughtful extension activity! 

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, readers reflect on the theme of individuality vs. conformity in this fun post-reading activity. 

After completing Walter Lord’s book A Night to Remember, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Before reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, use this pre-reading activity to get readers thinking about one of the major themes in the novel: stereotypes.

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

Have you ever thought about playing basketball in space? This middle-grade science worksheet discusses how forces and Newton’s Laws of Motion affect a game, both on Earth and on the moon! 

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

You just won an amazing prize, but it’s locked in a safe! Thankfully, the code is a single integer between -40 and 40, and you’ve got the clues to solve it.

Learn how manufacturers test car safety in crash tests with this informative physics worksheet!

Inspire learners to think and write creatively with this fun and seasonal writing prompt about a mysterious letter!

Learn about the layers of the Earth with this worksheet for middle-grade scientists!

Show what you know about the Earth-sun system with this earth and space science worksheet!

Inspire learners' creativity with this fun and seasonal writing prompt about a peculiar engraving!

In this physical science worksheet, students will review how to calculate velocity given time and distance and then apply this process to several diverse word problems.

Inspire learners' creativity with this seasonal writing prompt about finding the perfect gift for a friend!

Test your knowledge of record-breaking, trailblazing women in this engaging review game!

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.

Students read all about seaweed and answer standards-based comprehension questions in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Students do independent research to answer questions about the key events that contributed to growing tensions and hostilities leading up to the Civil War.

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

Introduce students to the primary-source text of the Gettysburg Address—and the context in which was delivered—with this three-page social studies worksheet.

Introduce readers to the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet! 

Encourage critical thinking and literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters from A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

Solve equations using clovers, horseshoes, and pots of gold in this seventh-grade integer puzzle!