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

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

Use this Evaluating Sources Checklist to help students evaluate their sources for relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability.

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

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

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

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 1–4 of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. 

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a visit to a haunted house!

Give students practice changing passive voice to active voice with this eighth-grade grammar and writing worksheet! 

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

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

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

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women to help your middle schooler analyze plot development!

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

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

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

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. 

Help students consider ways they can show courtesy to others during National Courtesy Month with this engaging writing prompt!

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

Practice identifying and relating common prefixes, suffixes, and root words in vocabulary words with this helpful grammar worksheet!

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

Discover the differences between gerunds, infinitives, and participles with this one-page grammar worksheet!

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

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

Give students extra practice naming the function of clauses in this seventh-grade grammar worksheet!

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