Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

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

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

Learners offer advice to a younger version of themselves in this engaging reflective writing activity.

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

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

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

Write a heartfelt letter to someone who has impacted your life with this SEL writing prompt for middle grades!

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Prepare students for reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind with these research and reflection prompts!

Help students consider ways they can show courtesy to others during National Courtesy Month with this engaging writing prompt!

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

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

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

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

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

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this suspenseful, summer-themed prompt about hearing a rustling noise from the woods at summer camp!

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

After students read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, have them compare and contrast the greasers and the Socs using this two-page novel study extension activity!

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

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

Use this sixth-grade graphic organizer worksheet to plan an argumentative essay about whether more should be done to solve a problem facing our society.