This graphic organizer provides an opportunity to keep track of key vocabulary words they encounter within an informational text.

Use this graphic organizer to guide students' reflections after listening to an episode of a podcast.

Students consider nuance and context in order to choose the word with a more positive connotation. 

In this civics worksheet, students learn about separation of powers within the U.S. government and explore how the three branches perform checks and balances.

Explore the impact invasive species have on the environment with this research-based graphic organizer!

Learn to enjoy gerunds in this grammar practice worksheet!

Use this graphic organizer to give students an opportunity to practice identifying the central idea of a text using key details.

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

After finishing Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, readers reflect on the major elements of the story with these writing prompts.

Encourage thoughtful discussion after students read chapters 19–23 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games with this helpful discussion guide! 

Fall into clause practice in this autumnal worksheet!

Enjoy a fun-filled snow day in this middle-grade logic puzzle!

Learn about common patterns in storytelling with this middle-grade worksheet!

Coordinate an Earth Day volunteer event with this middle-grade logic puzzle!

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, students demonstrate their understanding of the novel with these post-reading response prompts.

After reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, have students reflect on the novel and record their responses to these post-reading writing prompts!

Encourage critical thinking and literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters from A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

Supercharge your writing with semicolons in this middle school worksheet!

Discover the roadmap for your favorite stories with this middle-grade worksheet on plot archetypes!

Spend a day in the park with five different friends in this middle-grade logic puzzle!

Explore how traits are influenced by both genetic and environmental factors with this life science worksheet!

After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, give students the chance to reflect on the novel and respond in writing to five of these post-reading prompts.

Prepare students for reading A Night to Remember by guiding them through this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity.

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

Explore figurative language in context with this personification worksheet designed for fifth through eigth graders! 

Test your knowledge of famous Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in this bingo activity!

Use this discussion guide to engage learners in meaningful dialogue after they've read chapters 14–18 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. 

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son.”

Build your own bingo board to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!

Use this engaging card-sort activity to help eighth-grade math learners practice finding the number of solutions of linear equations.