After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

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

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.

Give your novice writer a fun way to practice sentence writing with these sentence starter prompts.

Children read about the sun as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

Looking for an alternative activity to ignite the imaginations of your reluctant writers? Use this fun comic book template to introduce creative writing to your students. Novice writers and artists alike will delight in the chance to create their own comi

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.

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

Practice creative writing, storytelling, and dialogue skills as you create a dialogue in this comics activity.

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

Flex your superhuman writing abilities with a fun prompt! If you could be a superhero, what power would you want to have?

Keep this study aid handy during homework time, or keep a copy in the back of your binder for classroom reference.

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 chart to categorize your chosen superhero’s real and supernatural strengths.

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Use this inspirational personal narrative prompt and standards-based rubric to help middle schoolers hone their narrative writing skills.

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

Develop your students' writing skills with this character and setting worksheet!

Integrate writing and science with this research graphic organizer in which students research and record information about an invasive species in their local region.

Explore setting by creating a travel brochure for the setting of your book.

Learn all about the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world, and find out why Egyptians built it hundreds of years ago.

Let your creative juices flow in this crazy writing prompt worksheet!

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

In this worksheet, children read about the March on Washington, the ideals that inspired it,  and the people who attended it.

Imagine if you could travel anywhere in the world! Where would you go? Take a trip around the globe with this travel writing prompt.

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Write your own Declaration of Independence in this creative writing worksheet!

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.