After completing Jim Murphy’s book The Great Fire, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Get ready to read Louis Sachar’s Holes with this engaging pre-reading worksheet!

Discover threats to ecosystem biodiversity with this life-science worksheet for sixth- through eighth-grade students!

Prepare students for reading A Night to Remember by guiding them through this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity.

Prepare students for reading The Great Fire by facilitating a picture walk through the first chapters’ images, pictures, and maps.

Prepare students for reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind with these research and reflection prompts!

After completing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, have students reflect on the significant themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Practice a useful strategy for multiplying fractions with this colorful worksheet!

Bravo, you’re about to be a master of interjections!

Engage readers with an exciting musical extension activity to be completed after they've finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry!

Prepare students for reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by having them complete this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity!

Students explore the impact of water pollution and conduct their own case study with this two-page environmental science worksheet!

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son.”

Build background knowledge about social classes in the early 1900s as students prepare to read A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

Watch Louis Sachar’s Holes come to life in the movie adaptation!

Engage readers with a colorful artistic extension activity to go along with The Giver by Lois Lowry!

Encourage students to make connections as they learn new words with this creative vocabulary quilt activity!

Give students the opportunity to think creatively about Louis Sachar’s Holes after they’re done reading!

Invite students to inventory their vocabulary knowledge with this adaptable graphic organizer!

Invite students to show off their knowledge of election-related key terms with this patriotic matching activity!

It’s a fraction-division frenzy! This math worksheet uses simple visual models to help sixth-grade students understand the process of dividing a fraction by a fraction.

Use gel electrophoresis to solve an ice cream mystery in this fun worksheet!

 

Students consider the ethics of exploring a maritime memorial in this extension activity for Walter Lord's A Night to Remember.