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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 students a chance to engage with a classic science fiction story while practicing crucial reading comprehension skills!

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

Use this original fiction story to give learners practice analyzing story elements, making inferences, and growing their vocabulary using context clues and word relationships.

Read and analyze a classic example of historical fiction with this adapted excerpt from Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper!

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.

Use this eighth-grade grammar and punctuation worksheet to give students practice determining if ellipses are used correctly in quotations pulled from nonfictions texts.

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!

Read an enlightening passage about light pollution and learn ways to bring back the dark night skies in this three-page 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.

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

Encourage thoughtful discussion after students read chapters 19–23 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games with this helpful discussion guide!