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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Use this graphic organizer to help students build critical thinking skills as they plan an argumentative essay about whether people or organizations should be allowed to do certain things.

Get students thinking, reflecting, and writing with this middle school narrative writing prompt and rubric!

After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, give students the chance to reflect on the novel and respond in writing to five of these post-reading prompts.

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

With this middle-school revision checklist, students will be guided to review their informational writing with a critical eye in order to improve their writing.

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.

Help students better understand what it means to have a topic with a broad scope versus a narrow scope with this helpful worksheet! 

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.”