Young writers reflect on a time they worked hard to earn something! Kick off the writing process with this narrative writing graphic organizer.

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

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

Help students hone their argument writing skills with this writing worksheet and graphic organizer.

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

Get students thinking, reflecting, and writing with this middle school narrative writing prompt and rubric!

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 finishing the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, give students a chance to “transmit” a memory of their own with this creative extension project! 

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

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, students give thought to the various settings in the story with this creative post-reading prompt!

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, choose one of Mrs Who's quotes to research, reflect on, and design a bumper sticker around.

Students design a pet rock and use rhetorical appeals to convince their class to choose it as a mascot!

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, give students this fun artistic assignment as an extension activity! 

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

Use this sixth-grade graphic organizer worksheet to plan an argumentative essay about whether more should be done to solve a problem facing our society.

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

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.

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

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, readers reflect on the theme of individuality vs. conformity in this fun post-reading activity. 

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

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

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.

After finishing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, students take inspiration from the main character as they rename people and places in their lives.

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, reflect on T.J. Avery’s decisions and consequences with this extension activity.

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

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.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, students will practice their narrative writing techniques as they draft a story about their favorite person

After reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help learners make connections between the book and their community with this engaging extension activity.