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

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

Encourage students to explore the notion of identity with this reflective writing and drawing prompt!

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

Help students learn how to avoid informal language in their nonfiction writing with this helpful formal writing worksheet.

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

In this language and vocabulary worksheet, learners will read two short passages and choose the transition words that best connect the ideas and sentences.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

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

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about school dress codes!

When writing an informational essay, start with gathering information with the help of this research graphic organizer template.

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

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

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

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

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

Introduce students to the power of self-appreciation with this inspiring writing activity!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture 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 Evaluating Sources Checklist to help students evaluate their sources for relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability.

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

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

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

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.”

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

Students design a pet rock and use rhetorical appeals to convince their class to choose it as a mascot!

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.

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.