Middle school students will uncover the blueprints of every legendary tale as they learn, identify, and draw symbols for six different plot archetypes!

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

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

Engage readers with an exciting musical extension activity to be completed after they've finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry!

Give your students a chance to think critically and practice their writing skills with this engaging writing prompt!

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

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, challenge students to think about the symbolism of the costumes in the novel and get creative!

Help eighth-grade math learners remember and study the properties of exponents with this helpful handout!

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 1–4 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

After finishing the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, give students a chance to “transmit” a memory of their own with this creative extension project! 

Support students’ comprehension and analysis of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders with these discussion questions for chapters 9-12.

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 5–8 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

Engage readers with a colorful artistic extension activity to go along with The Giver by Lois Lowry!

Before reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, use this pre-reading activity to get readers thinking about one of the major themes in the novel: stereotypes.

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

Probability can be as easy as rolling dice! What is the probability of rolling a 2? What about a 6? Practice calculating basic probability with this worksheet.

Keep this study aid handy during homework time, or keep a copy in the back of your binder for classroom reference.

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

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, choose one of Mrs Who's quotes to research, reflect on, and design a bumper sticker around.

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

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

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

Use this guide to promote in-depth discussion after students have finished reading chapters 10–13 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.

Build background knowledge about social classes in the early 1900s as students prepare to read A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, encourage students to examine the novel's setting with this creative writing worksheet! 

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

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 1–4 of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. 

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 5–9 of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins! 

Explore how the fossil record is used to study the evolution of organisms in this engaging science worksheet for middle grades!

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