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

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

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.

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

Have students compare and contrast fictional and historical accounts with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

In this worksheet, students will read about Anne Frank, then complete a chart identifying cause and effect.

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

Students compare and contrast two fables in this eighth-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

With this organizer, students will be able to find unfamiliar vocabulary as they read and use context clues to determine meaning.

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

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 your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

This middle school worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

Use this two-page graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast informational narratives from two different genres.

Choose your literary nonfiction response prompt! Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the impact of an author’s word choice.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

Help your students learn to analyze characters in literature with the help of this graphic organizer.

Students need to make sure their pronouns agree with their antecedents. Practice with this informative worksheet!

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

Help students reflect on chapters 1–4 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Help students reflect on chapters 5–8 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Help students reflect on chapters 9–12 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Strengthen reading comprehension and literary analysis skills with this sixth through eighth grade foreshadowing worksheet!

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 1–8 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.