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

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Ponyboy From The Outsiders.

Have middle school students use these writing prompts as a jumping off point as they set out to write an informational essay.

Help students hone their argument writing skills with this writing worksheet and graphic organizer.

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this exciting, summer-themed prompt about a strange encounter at a local carnival!

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

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

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

Help budding authors practice giving personality to their narrative writing with the exercises in this writing worksheet.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help learners analyze two characters from the book with this creative extension activity!