7th and 8th Grade Common Core Writing Strategies Educational Resources

Give your students a chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this engaging picture prompt! 

Use this reference sheet to encourage students to use a variety of transition words in their writing to signal the different relationships between ideas.

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

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

In this middle school grammar worksheet, learners will read short narrative passages and choose the transitions that best connect the ideas and sentences.

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.

Give students an opportunity to flex their descriptive writing muscles with another engaging picture prompt!

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Students design a pet rock and use rhetorical appeals to convince their class to choose it as a mascot!

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

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!

Improve students' argument writing skills by identifying and removing irrelevant details with this middle school writing worksheet!

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

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

In this sixth-grade worksheet, students hone their narrative writing skills by practicing identifying and removing irrelevant details to strengthen a story.

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

Students read and analyze an excerpt from E. Nesbit’s 1906 novel, The Railway Children, in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Students have another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Help students learn how to avoid informal language in their nonfiction writing with this helpful formal writing 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 practice changing passive voice to active voice with this eighth-grade grammar and writing worksheet! 

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

Use this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women to help your middle schooler analyze plot development!

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

In this two-page grammar worksheet for eighth grade, students will read sentences written using passive voice and rewrite them using active voice!

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.

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