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Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

Use these thought-provoking prompts to reflect on the plot, characters, and themes in Louis Sachar’s Holes!

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

After reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

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.

After reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, have students reflect on the novel and record their responses to these post-reading writing prompts!

Use these pre-reading discussion prompts to prepare students for reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

After completing Jim Murphy’s book The Great Fire, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

After completing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

After completing the novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts! 

After completing the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

After completing Walter Lord’s book A Night to Remember, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, students demonstrate their understanding of the novel with these post-reading response prompts.

After finishing Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, readers reflect on the major elements of the story with these writing prompts.

Learn onomatopoeia while you experience an exciting video game quest!

Spot the saboteur by testing DNA in this exciting middle-grade worksheet!

Ring in the Lunar New Year by learning more about this exciting holiday!

After reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, students reflect on the major themes and events of Anne’s story with these response prompts.

Middle school writers practice rewriting sentences using personification to add description and make the sentences more exciting!

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this exciting, summer-themed prompt about a strange encounter at a local carnival!

Engage readers with an exciting musical extension activity to be completed after they've finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry!

Write with the power of friendship on your side in this cheerful prompt worksheet!

This cool worksheet prompts young biologists to research the functions of cell organelles labeled in the diagram.

Everyone loves a birthday party! Write about one of your birthday memories in this prompt worksheet!

Have middle school students use these writing prompts as a jumping off point as they set out to write an informational essay.

Prepare students for reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind with these research and reflection prompts!

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

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