Let’s slice through comma splices to eliminate run-on sentences!

In this advanced comma review, students practice identifying locations in sentences in which commas are needed to indicate a pause or break.

Help students reflect on chapters 5–8 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Differentiate learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about summer screen time limits!

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, choose one of Mrs Who's quotes to research, reflect on, and design a bumper sticker around.

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, readers reflect on the theme of individuality vs. conformity in this fun post-reading activity. 

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, students give thought to the various settings in the story with this creative post-reading prompt!

This eighth-grade grammar worksheet will give students practice using commas with interjections, appositives, direct addresses, and introductory phrases or clauses.

After completing the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

Help students reflect on chapters 1–4 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Help students reflect on chapters 9–12 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

After reading the next few chapters of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s Esperanza Rising, engage students in discussion with this two-page guide!

Need more practice using commas with coordinate adjectives? This useful grammar worksheet can help!

Discover the science experiment that tested whether humans could survive in an isolated ecosystem in this fascinating passage!

After completing this middle-grade worksheet, you’ll be a pro at using subordinating conjunctions!

Are kids today spending enough time outdoors?  Make your case in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle grades!

Students practice essential reading comprehension skills in this worksheet that features a passage about a boy who takes hang gliding lessons and becomes airborne for the first time.

Support students’ inference skills with this targeted two-page reading worksheet. 

Engage readers with a colorful artistic extension activity to go along with The Giver by Lois Lowry!

Practice determining the meaning of unknown words in context with Read and Find Root Words #2!

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

Semicolons link two related independent clauses together; learn to use them correctly with this middle-grade worksheet!

Read an informational passage about George Washington Carver to learn about his life and achievements!

After dinner, do you eat desert or dessert? Learn to differentiate between commonly confused words in this middle-grade worksheet!

Visit the crashing waters of the mighty Iguazú Falls in this middle school passage!

Prepare students for reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle by guiding them through this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity!

Give students extra practice identifying and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers in this helpful two-page worksheet!