Help students learn how to avoid informal language in their nonfiction writing with this helpful formal writing worksheet.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

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

Help your students recognize variations in speaking and writing based on context with this one-page worksheet!

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

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

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

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

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

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

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.

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

Get students thinking deeply about their personality traits with this engaging reflective writing prompt!

Use this Evaluating Sources Checklist to help students evaluate their sources for relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability.

Learners offer advice to a younger version of themselves in this engaging reflective writing activity.

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

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a visit to a haunted house!

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

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

In this language and vocabulary worksheet, learners will read two short passages and choose the transition words that best connect the ideas and sentences.

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

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.