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!

In this two-page grammar worksheet for eighth grade, students will read sentences written using passive voice and rewrite them using active voice!

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.

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

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!

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

Learners write an argumentative response with this Earth Day-themed writing prompt about plastic bags. 

Invite your students to practice their creative storytelling with this fun, spring-themed writing prompt about a harrowing experience at a baseball game!

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

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.

Use this fun creative writing prompt and accompanying rubric to inspire budding authors and help them hone their narrative writing skills.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

After reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, have students reflect on the novel and record their responses to these post-reading writing prompts!

Invite learners to research Ramadan and record their findings using this festive research template!

Use this fun, winter-themed writing worksheet to help students learn the difference between formal and informal writing.

Choose your literary nonfiction response prompt! Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the impact of an author’s word choice.

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for eighth grade!

How can you care for your community? Get students thinking deeply with this engaging Ramadan-themed writing prompt!

Inspire learners to think and write creatively with this fun writing prompt about an Earth Day discovery!