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.”

Learners will learn about a winter holiday, then complete the graphic organizer with their notes, using this festive research template.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

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

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

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

Invite learners to research Ramadan and record their findings using this research template!

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.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the author’s use of language and literary devices in this literary response worksheet.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a poem or drama in this worksheet for middle school learners.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing and evaluating the structure of a nonfiction text.

Get students looking ahead and setting goals for themselves in the new year with this resolutions writing worksheet.

Choose your literary nonfiction response prompt! Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the impact of an author’s word choice.

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 will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

Engage your creative side with this musical companion activity to a unit on Louis Sachar’s Holes!

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Guide student research about women’s suffrage around the world with this two-page research graphic organizer!

Introduce yourself, and get to know others, with this fun science-themed questionnaire!

Turn up the volume on opinion writing as middle schoolers decide who wins the battle of best music!

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

Explore more complicated sentences as you add details about where, when, why, and how!

Encourage students to think deeply about the season of giving with this reflective writing prompt for fourth through eighth graders.

Write an eloquent, nature-inspired personification poem with this guided worksheet for seventh graders!