Learners practice identifying restrictive and nonrestrictive elements in this middle grades grammar worksheet!

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

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

Use this worksheet with your students to help them build their vocabulary and language skills. 

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

Learn about Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, a Chinese-American suffragist, activist, and minister of the early 20th century with this reading comprehension worksheet!

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.

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

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.

Let your learner try their hand at 15 rhyming riddles with this fun word puzzle worksheet!

Get students thinking, reflecting, and writing with this middle school narrative writing prompt and rubric!

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

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

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions after students read chapters 1–6 of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. 

Analyze the impact an author’s words can have on the meaning and tone of a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

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.

Prepare students for reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan by accessing and building background knowledge with this pre-reading activity!

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by reading about the holiday’s history and imagery!