Prepare students for reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan by accessing and building background knowledge with this pre-reading activity!

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

Get students thinking deeply about their personality traits with this engaging reflective writing prompt!

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

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

Learn about story progression and story organization with this ladder graphic organizer.

Getting ready to write an informational essay? Use this five-page outline to help think through the next stages of the informational writing process!

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

In this thoughtful opinion-writing worksheet, children will describe the season they like best, and why.

Encourage students to use vivid, descriptive imagery with this creative worksheet!

Boost creativity with these sentence prompts! Kids will practice storytelling with the help of some sentence starters.

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

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

Kids learn how to "show" instead of "tell" in their writing.

Learners offer advice to a younger version of themselves in this engaging reflective writing activity.

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

Challenge your outspoken learner to put their opinions down on paper, and practice writing persuasive text while they're at it.

Help plan and research a biography with this helpful graphic organizer!

Write a heartfelt letter to someone who has impacted your life with this SEL writing prompt for middle grades!

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

Use this standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 7th grade to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

Use this bubble chart to brainstorm your favorite superhero's real strengths.

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

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

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

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, students will practice their narrative writing techniques as they draft a story about their favorite person

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

This worksheet helps young writers see the difference sensory words can make by asking them to compare sentences with sensory words and without.

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

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.