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

Use this reflective writing worksheet to encourage a growth mindset in students and strengthen important social emotional skills!

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

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

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

Students read background information about June as National Great Outdoors Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Students read background information about July as National Anti-Boredom Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Students read background information about May as Mental Health Awareness Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Encourage students to reflect on their reading identities and set a realistic reading goal with this helpful reading survey!

Students use sentence-level context clues and their knowledge of vocabulary as they practice using commonly confused word pairs.

Students practice using sentence-level context clues and word relationships to determine the meaning of above-level vocabulary words.

This Lunar New Year worksheet is a fun way for learners to build their vocabulary and hone spelling skills!

Give students practice using who and whom correctly in the context of written sentences with this helpful grammar worksheet!

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

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

Use this inspirational personal narrative prompt and standards-based rubric to help middle schoolers hone their narrative writing skills.

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

Get ready, this activity transforms middle school students into experts at understanding and decoding characters in all their favorite stories!

Complete this middle-grade worksheet about using semicolons and conjunctive adverbs; afterward, you’ll be a grammar master! 

Rise and shine with a writing prompt that gets middle schoolers thinking about whether schools should start early or late.

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

Give this adjective-filled handout to students as a reference document they can refer to now and save for later!

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the major themes and events from The Giver.

Learn about Hanukkah and one of its most recognizable symbols with this reflective writing prompt, designed for fourth through eighth graders.

How can you show love to your friends and family? Get students thinking deeply with this Easter-themed writing prompt!

How do stories of endurance and hope impact us? Inspire students to think deeply with this Passover-themed writing prompt!

Use this middle school worksheet to introduce learners to the MLA 8th edition format for citing sources and writing a bibliography.

Students read background information about March as National Music in Our Schools Month and then respond to reflective questions.

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