This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

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

Add some spice to your writing by varying sentence patterns with this two-page writing worksheet for sixth graders!

In this paragraph editing page, kids will have a great time editing this love letter from a Victorian gentleman.

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

Use this sample paragraph and outline to help students write their own informational paragraphs.

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

With this middle-school revision checklist, students will be guided to review their informational writing with a critical eye in order to improve their writing.

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.

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 students better understand what it means to have a topic with a broad scope versus a narrow scope with this helpful worksheet! 

Use this Evaluating Sources Checklist to help students evaluate their sources for relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability.

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

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this summer-themed writing prompt about spending time outdoors!

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

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

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

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

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

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

Young writers reflect on a time they worked hard to earn something! Kick off the writing process with this narrative writing graphic organizer.

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

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

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

Young historians get to put themselves in the shoes of American colonists and report back to the king himself in this creative worksheet!

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.

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

Support budding authors in developing their informational writing voice with this writing worksheet.

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.