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

Introduce students to the power of self-appreciation with this inspiring writing activity!

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

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

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help learners analyze two characters from the book with this creative extension activity!

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

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

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

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about summer screen time limits!

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

After completing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, have students reflect on the significant themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

In this worksheet, learners come to better understand the different kinds of narratives, and how they are similar and different, by creating a map of narrative genres.

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.

Inspire learners to think and write creatively with this fun writing prompt about an Earth Day discovery!

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.

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!