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!

Engage students' senses and inspire their creativity with this sensory poem template!

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

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for sixth grade!

Give your students a chance to reflect on the importance of learning and practice their writing skills with this engaging writing prompt!

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

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.

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

This rubric for sixth-grade argument writing covers all of the major Common Core standards in the argument writing strand, including introduction, support, transitions, style, and conclusion.

Give your students a chance to voice their opinion and practice their writing skills with this fun “would you rather” writing 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.

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

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

Use this middle school worksheet to introduce learners to the MLA 8th edition format for citing sources and writing a bibliography.

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.

Should all people have a right to internet access? Argue your stance in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle school!

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

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

Students read background information about August as National Sandwich Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Use this fun, winter-themed writing worksheet to help students learn the difference between formal and informal writing.

Use this inspirational personal narrative prompt and standards-based rubric to help middle schoolers hone their narrative writing skills.

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

Get students thinking deeply with this spring-themed writing prompt about new beginnings!

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.

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

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a visit to a haunted house!

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

Give your students a chance to think critically and practice their writing skills with this engaging writing prompt.