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

Engage students' senses and inspire their creativity with this sensory poem template!

Students design a pet rock and use rhetorical appeals to convince their class to choose it as a mascot!

Practicing poets can refine their sense of meter and rhythm with this worksheet about stressed and unstressed syllables.

Young historians learn about four pioneering female scientists as they hone their research skills in this Who Am I? Women in Science worksheet.

Write the story to go along with this series of story illustrations with this fun writing prompt.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

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.

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.

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?

Use this worksheet to help middle-school writers correctly use ellipses to indicate a pause in narrative dialogue.

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.

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.

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