In this activity, your child will get the chance to adapt a favorite book for the stage or screen.

Assess your students’ argument writing skills with a standards-based rubric for eighth grade.

Hook your students with this cookie-themed exercise that will teach the basics of strong persuasive writing.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

Encourage students to use vivid, descriptive imagery with this creative worksheet!

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have young readers select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

After completing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, have students reflect on the significant themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

With this exercise, students will practice writing counter-arguments and rebuttals.

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!

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!

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