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

Encourage thoughtful discussion after students read chapters 19–23 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games with this helpful discussion guide! 

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!

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

Practice analyzing primary source documents with this worksheet featuring excerpts from the June 19, 1865, orders to end slavery in Texas. 

Give learners a chance to think deeply and hone their writing skills with this relatable and inspirational writing prompt, featuring a quote by Robert Frost.

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

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

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!

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

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

Help students to think critically and practice their writing skills with this thoughtful writing prompt based on a quote by Laotian American author Bryan Thao Worra.

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 5–8 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

There's been a periodic table of the elements robbery! Channel your chemistry detective skills with this fun worksheet.

After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, give students the chance to reflect on the novel and respond in writing to five of these post-reading prompts.

Stay calm and centered during your next quiz or exam with these test-taking tips!

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read chapters 5-8 of A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

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.

Practice identifying costs and benefits with this middle-grade worksheet!

Enjoy a fun-filled snow day in this middle-grade logic puzzle!

Use squares to explain square roots with this helpful eighth-grade worksheet!

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

Practice using semicolons to clarify complex lists with this middle-grade worksheet!

Learn about the layers of the Earth with this worksheet for middle-grade scientists!

Learn how hot air balloons take flight with this middle-grade worksheet about convection!

Coordinate an Earth Day volunteer event with this middle-grade logic puzzle!

Practice calculating distance in this essential eighth-grade worksheet!