6th and 7th Grade English Language Arts Resources : Page 12

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

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

Invite learners to practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about giving middle school students access to recess!

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

Before reading Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk to Water, use these pre-reading prompts to engage students in a discussion about key story elements.

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about summer reading requirements!

Help students learn to distinguish between subject, object, and possessive pronouns based on sentence-level context clues with this grammar worksheet!

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

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

Students will use this fun graphic organizer to help them plan their own podcast to perfection! 

With this organizer, students will be able to find unfamiliar vocabulary as they read and use context clues to determine meaning.

Introduce readers to the inspiring poem “Thanksgiving” by American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox with this sixth-grade reading comprehension worksheet.

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

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

After students read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, have them compare and contrast the greasers and the Socs using this two-page novel study extension activity!

Use these questions to encourage critical thinking and support literacy development as students read the first few diary entries of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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

Encourage critical thinking with this discussion guide as students read the next set of Anne’s diary entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Help students hone their spelling and vocabulary skills with this fun summer-themed grammar worksheet.

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Valentine's Day-themed similes!

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

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a literary text with this middle school writing worksheet.

Use this fun, winter-themed writing worksheet to help students learn the difference between formal and informal writing.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

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