Write a heartfelt letter to someone who has impacted your life with this SEL writing prompt for middle grades!

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

Help students build their vocabulary and language skills with this helpful grammar worksheet! 

Help middle school students learn to determine the different shades of meaning of related words with this language and vocabulary worksheet!

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

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

Help students hone their argument writing skills with this writing worksheet and graphic organizer.

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this fun, summer-themed writing prompt about finding something mysterious buried in the sand!

Analyze different points of views and perspectives in a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

After completing S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, allow students to connect to the theme of identity with this engaging reflection activity! 

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

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

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 1–8 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.

Use this worksheet with your students to help them build their vocabulary and language skills

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

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

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.

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

Prepare students for reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind with these research and reflection prompts!

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

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

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.

In this seventh-grade language and writing worksheet, students will read a variety of sentences and determine which words or phrases are redundant or unnecessary.

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

Help students reflect on chapters 1–4 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

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

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.

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

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