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

Have middle school students use these writing prompts as a jumping off point as they set out to write an informational essay.

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

Hooray! You can learn to use interjections in your own writing with this engaging worksheet for fifth through eighth graders!

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

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 12–17 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the author’s use of language and literary devices in this literary response worksheet.

Before reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, use this pre-reading activity to build background knowledge and engagement. 

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

Use this graphic organizer to guide students' reflections after listening to an episode of a podcast.

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

In this worksheet, you will not only learn to correctly use correlative conjunctions, but also go on a fantastical adventure!

Use these pre-reading discussion prompts to prepare students for reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Use this multiple-meaning words worksheet to support middle school students as they explore a word with more than one meaning. 

Use this vocabulary-building worksheet to help middle school students expand their knowledge of academic words in an authentic and multi-faceted way.

Use context clues to decipher the difference between words like dual and duel in this middle-grade worksheet!

Use this reading survey to get to know your students’ reading habits and encourage them to reflect on their relationship with reading.

Getting ready to write an informational essay? Use this five-page outline to help think through the next stages of the informational writing process!

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

Learners use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of more common allusions.

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

Use this reflective writing worksheet to encourage a growth mindset in students and strengthen important social emotional skills!

Use this reading guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about the final chapters of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.

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

Use this original fiction story to give learners practice analyzing story elements, making inferences, and growing their vocabulary using context clues and word relationships.

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

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

Conjunctive adverbs can be tricky; regardless, you can master them with this helpful middle school worksheet!

Hmm, are you familiar with interjections? In this worksheet, fifth through eighth graders will use interjections to reflect different feelings.

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of the first part of William Kamkwamba’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.