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

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.

Students practice expressing ideas precisely and concisely by revising sentences to remove vague and redundant words or phrases.

Use this standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 7th grade to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

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.

This standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 8th grade is the perfect tool to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

Can middle-grade chemists recover the missing information about these elements from the periodic table?

Assess your students’ argument writing skills with a standards-based rubric for eighth grade.

Assess your students’ argument writing skills with this standards-based rubric for seventh grade!

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

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

Give middle-grade students a painless beginner's introduction to the periodic table of elements with this fun worksheet.

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–8 of Anne of Green Gables.

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 8-11 of William Kamkwamba’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

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