Assess your students’ narrative writing skills with this standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 6th grade.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

Research your dream career with this graphic organizer! Pick a career to learn about, and then compile your notes in this worksheet.

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

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

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

Encourage students to explore the notion of identity with this reflective writing and drawing prompt!

Getting ready to write an informational essay? Use this five-page outline to help think through the next stages of the informational writing process!

Help students learn how to avoid informal language in their nonfiction writing with this helpful formal writing worksheet.

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

In this language and vocabulary worksheet, learners will read two short passages and choose the transition words that best connect the ideas and sentences.

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

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

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

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

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about school dress codes!

When writing an informational essay, start with gathering information with the help of this research graphic organizer template.

Help your students recognize variations in speaking and writing based on context with this one-page worksheet!

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

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

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

Introduce students to the power of self-appreciation with this inspiring writing activity!

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

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.

Use this Evaluating Sources Checklist to help students evaluate their sources for relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability.

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

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.