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.

After completing S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, allow students to connect to the theme of identity with this engaging reflection activity! 

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

Give students a chance to voice their opinion and practice their writing skills with this fun “would you rather” writing prompt.

Get familiar with some types of poetry in this worksheet that covers different poetry structures.

Should all people have a right to internet access? Argue your stance in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle school!

Try your hand at an acrostic fall poem, a popular writing activity for kids.

Students read background information about May as Mental Health Awareness Month and then respond to reflective questions.

This prewriting activity walks students through making an outline of a narrative essay, from the central ideas to the important details.

Help your students review how develop a claim and support that claim with evidence. A claim is an opinion about a story that you can support with evidence.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the author’s use of language and literary devices in this literary response worksheet.

Get students thinking, reflecting, and writing with this middle school narrative writing prompt and rubric!

Help your students organize their notes as they conduct research for their informational writing.

After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, give students the chance to reflect on the novel and respond in writing to five of these post-reading prompts.

Use this nature journal to inspire kids to get outside and learn in the great outdoors!

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this suspenseful, summer-themed prompt about hearing a rustling noise from the woods at summer camp!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

Writers will practice crafting a story around setting with this open-ended writing prompt.

Make personal narrative and dialogue prep a breeze with this organizer! Students will practice sequencing and prewriting as they put together their personal narrative about a time they were surprised by something or someone.

This rubric for sixth-grade argument writing covers all of the major Common Core standards in the argument writing strand, including introduction, support, transitions, style, and conclusion.

Can you tell the difference between fact and opinion? Hone writing skills by identifying opinion vs fact.

This fun worksheet will help young students as they dive into the genre of biography.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Encourage children to reflect on the First and Fourth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution with this multi-page worksheet.