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!

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

Use this standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 7th grade to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

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!

Get students' wheels turning and stomachs churning with this reflective writing prompt!

Help students to think critically and practice their writing skills with this thoughtful writing prompt based on a quote by poet Julia Alvarez.

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

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

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