Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 1–4 of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. 

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

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

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the major themes and events from The Giver.

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 6–11 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

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

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

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

After students read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, have them compare and contrast the greasers and the Socs using this two-page novel study extension activity!

Encourage critical thinking with this discussion guide as students read the next set of Anne’s diary entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

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

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

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

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.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 12–15 and the epilogue of William Kamkwamba’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 5–9 of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins! 

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

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.

Support students’ comprehension and analysis of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders with these discussion questions for chapters 9-12.

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 12–17 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

After reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, students compare the movie adaptation to the written story.

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.

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.

Support key literacy skills with these discussion questions as students continue their reading of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

After reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, have students reflect on the novel and record their responses to these post-reading writing prompts!