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

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing and evaluating the structure of a nonfiction text.

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.

This standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 8th grade is the perfect tool to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

Spend a day in the park with five different friends in this middle-grade logic puzzle!

Assess your students’ argument writing skills with a standards-based rubric for eighth grade.

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for eighth grade!

Give middle-grade students a painless beginner's introduction to the periodic table of elements with this fun worksheet.

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

In this grammar worksheet, students will look closely at roots, prefixes, and suffixes in order to better understand how a group of words can share a common word part.

Middle school students will uncover the blueprints of every legendary tale as they learn, identify, and draw symbols for six different plot archetypes!

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

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

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

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

Learners will use five clues to piece together four ghost stories in this fun logic challenge.

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

Give your students a chance to think critically and practice their writing skills with this engaging writing prompt!

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

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