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

Invite your students to practice their creative storytelling with this fun, spring-themed writing prompt about a peculiar find at the beach following a storm!

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

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

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.”

In this helpful grammar worksheet, students will review the definition and examples of participles and participial phrases before practicing the skill on their own.

To infinitives and beyond! This worksheet helps students master the skill of identifying infinitives and infinitive phrases in sentences.

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

Give students practice identifying and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers in this helpful two-page worksheet!

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

Practice using parallel structure in writing with this fill-in-the-blank grammar exercise!

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

Invite learners to practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about allowing teachers to hold classes outdoors!

Expand your reader’s knowledge of world folklore with this unique and engaging reading comprehension worksheet! 

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

Get students thinking and writing creatively with this prompt about a suspicious snowball that zips by while on a walk down the snowy city sidewalk!

How do stories of endurance and hope impact us? Inspire students to think deeply with this Passover-themed writing prompt!

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun, seasonal figurative language maze.

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

Help budding authors practice giving personality to their narrative writing with the exercises in this writing worksheet.

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 6–11 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Students will look closely at roots, prefixes, and suffixes in order to better understand how a group of words can share a common word part.

Give students extra practice differentiating between an independent clause and a dependent clause with this seventh-grade grammar worksheet!

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

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

Brush up on some St. Patrick's Day-themed spelling words with this creative word search activity!

Enjoy spelling practice alongside your Presidents' Day celebrations with this fun word search activity!

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

Invite learners to research Easter and record their findings using this spring-inspired research template!

Become a pro at identifying phrases and clauses in sentences with this two-page, seventh-grade grammar worksheet!