After completing S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, allow students to connect to the theme of identity with this engaging reflection activity! 

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

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

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the major themes and events from The Giver.

Share your writing with the world through any of the unique formats from this Writing With Technology Choice Board worksheet!

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

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

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

Students read background information about June as National Great Outdoors Month and then respond to reflective questions.

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

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

Get learners' creative juices flowing with this fun leap year-inspired writing prompt!

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!

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

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

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 completing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, have students reflect on the significant themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

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

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

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

Give blossoming authors a chance to practice their creative writing skills with this realistic fiction writing prompt and standards-based rubric.

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

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

After reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, students reflect on the major themes and events of Anne’s story with these response prompts.

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

Use this worksheet to help middle-school writers correctly use ellipses to indicate a pause in narrative dialogue.

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.

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

Integrate writing and science with this research graphic organizer in which students research and record information about an invasive species in their local region.