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

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an persuasive essay with this engaging activity.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

Learn more about the life of Anne Frank, a tragic, true-life story of a young girl caught up in the horrors of war.

Use this example of a persuasive essay to dissect and identify the parts of this genre.

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

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

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.

In this worksheet, learners come to better understand the different kinds of narratives, and how they are similar and different, by creating a map of narrative genres.

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

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

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

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

Use this middle school worksheet to introduce learners to the MLA 8th edition format for citing sources and writing a bibliography.

Use this graphic organizer to help students build critical thinking skills as they plan an argumentative essay about whether people or organizations should be allowed to do certain things.

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

Assess your students’ narrative writing skills with this standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 6th grade.

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

After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, give students the chance to reflect on the novel and respond in writing to five of these post-reading prompts.

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.

If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.

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

While playing this fun memory game, students will find a piece of evidence that supports each claim.

Young writers are guided through the process of planning and writing a persuasive essay in this comprehensive, three-page worksheet.

When Christina Koch and Jessica Meir traveled to the International Space Station in October 2019, they went down in history as having completed the first all-female spacewalk. Children can learn about this momentous trip with the help of this wo

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.

After completing S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, allow students to connect to the theme of identity with this engaging reflection activity! 

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

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!