Middle School English Language Arts Resources : Page 11

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

Invite learners to practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about giving middle school students access to recess!

Assess your students’ narrative writing skills with this standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 6th grade.

Help middle school students strengthen their vocabulary knowledge with this one-page worksheet on shades of meaning! 

Give students some fun summer-themed spelling practice with this unique and engaging word search!

With this organizer, students will be able to find unfamiliar vocabulary as they read and use context clues to determine meaning.

Learners will practice adding commas between coordinate adjectives in sentences in this helpful, one-page worksheet.

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

Who or whom? Practice using relative pronouns in the context of written sentences with this one-page grammar worksheet!

Encourage critical thinking with this discussion guide as students read the next set of Anne’s diary entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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

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.

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Hone reading comprehension and analysis skills with this worksheet featuring a French fairy tale about a prince, a curse, and the importance of recognizing one's own flaws.

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.

Use this one-page grammar worksheet to give your eighth graders practice identifying and correcting indicative and subjunctive mood in sentences!

Write a heartfelt letter to someone who has impacted your life with this SEL writing prompt for middle grades!

Commas and dashes are both used to indicate pauses or breaks, but what’s the difference? Help your learners find out with this engaging one-page worksheet!

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.”

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

Read a one-page adaptation of the Japanese myth, “The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child” and answer a variety of eighth-grade comprehension questions!

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.

Give students extra practice naming the function of clauses in this seventh-grade grammar worksheet!

Guide student research about women’s suffrage around the world with this two-page research graphic organizer!

Use this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women to help your middle schooler analyze plot development!

Expand your reader’s knowledge of world folklore with this unique and engaging reading comprehension worksheet! 

Use this short story to help your students practice identifying the root words "son" and "sect" in context.

Get students thinking and writing creatively with this prompt about an unexpected walk down memory lane while stuck inside on a snowy weekend.

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