Middle school writers practice rewriting sentences using personification to add description and make the sentences more exciting!

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

Practice using a tricky punctuation mark: the colon!

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

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son.”

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

Assess students’ understanding of word parts and how they relate to word meaning with this grammar worksheet.

In this seventh-grade grammar worksheet, students will practice identifying the different types of sentences and examples of each.

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

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

Students consider nuance and context in order to choose the word with a more positive connotation. 

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–5 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Before reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, use this pre-reading activity to get readers thinking about one of the major themes in the novel: stereotypes.

Celebrate Earth Day with an engaging word search activity that reinforces spelling skills!

Students practice differentiating between gerund phrases, infinitive phrases, and participial phrases in this grammar worksheet!

Use this graphic organizer to give students an opportunity to practice identifying the central idea of a text using key details.

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

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Enjoy fall-themed hink pink riddles with this fun word puzzle worksheet! 

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 1–4 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

Explore spring-themed hink pink riddles with this fun word puzzle worksheet! 

Students practice informational reading comprehension skills while learning all about the national artistic tradition of azulejo tiles!

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

Learn all about the history of candles with this two-page nonfiction reading worksheet!

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

What does it all mean? In this sixth-grade worksheet, students will practice using text evidence to identify the theme of a story they've read recently.

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

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

Give students practice identifying prepositional phrases in context with this seventh grade grammar worksheet!

Expand your reader’s knowledge of world folklore with this unique and engaging reading comprehension worksheet!