This standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 8th grade is the perfect tool to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

When writing an informational essay, start with gathering information with the help of this research graphic organizer template.

Use this sixth-grade graphic organizer worksheet to plan an argumentative essay about whether more should be done to solve a problem facing our society.

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.

Students practice expressing ideas precisely and concisely by revising sentences to remove vague and redundant words or phrases.

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about fall break requirements!

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

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about school dress codes!

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

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

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.

In this grammar and punctuation worksheet, children learn guidelines for when to use quotation marks, and when not to use them.

Exercise your beginning writer's creativity and sentence-building skills with this fun family project, all about mom!

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

Boost reading comprehension skills with this language arts worksheet. Kids read the story, then use clues from the story to write their own conclusion below.

Have middle school students use these writing prompts as a jumping off point as they set out to write an informational essay.

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a particularly eerie night of trick-or-treating!

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

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