Use this vocabulary-building worksheet to help middle school students expand their knowledge of academic words in an authentic and multi-faceted way.

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! 

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!

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

In this worksheet, learn to use appositives, noun phrases (like this one) that usually follow and rename or describe another noun!

Don’t be a copycat! Learn how to cite sources and spot plagiarism with this middle-grade worksheet.

Did you know you can clarify complex lists by using semicolons? Try it out with this middle-grade worksheet!

Support students’ comprehension and analysis of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders with these discussion questions for chapters 9-12.

Naming the function of clauses is as easy as pie in this seventh-grade grammar worksheet!

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

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 1–8 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.

Get your feet wet with this one-page reading comprehension worksheet on the challenging sport of artistic swimming!

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 9–14 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water. 

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

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

Decipher who’s doing what in this seventh- and eighth-grade worksheet about passive and active voice!

Explore a new way to combine sentences with this seventh- and eighth-grade grammar worksheet!

Give your students a chance to think deeply and hone their writing skills with this inspiring writing prompt.

Help eighth-grade learners strengthen their vocabulary knowledge with this simple one-page worksheet on shades of meaning.

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

Identifying gerunds and gerund phrases is smooth sailing with this simple, one-page worksheet for seventh- and eighth-grade students!