This four-page worksheet gives students a chance to engage deeply with a rigorous nonfiction text about government funding for space exploration.

Inspire middle-grade learners with this biography of Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space!

Discover the science experiment that tested whether humans could survive in an isolated ecosystem in this fascinating passage!

Learn about how the satellites that orbit the Earth impact people’s lives in this informational passage!

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a literary text with this middle school writing worksheet.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the author’s use of language and literary devices in this literary response worksheet.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a poem or drama in this worksheet for middle school learners.

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.

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.

Choose your literary nonfiction response prompt! Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the impact of an author’s word choice.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

Visit the crashing waters of the mighty Iguazú Falls in this middle school passage!

Read all about the origins of Oregon’s fascinating Wizard Island in this engaging passage!

Explore a remarkable example of Maya engineering with this sixth through eighth grade nonfiction reading worksheet.

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

After completing S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, allow students to connect to the theme of identity with this engaging reflection activity!