Middle School Common Core Worksheets : Page 35

Use this fun creative writing prompt and accompanying rubric to inspire budding authors and help them hone their narrative writing skills.

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for parts 5-7 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Build up your ability to convert metric units to customary units, operate with real-world decimals, and more with this performance task!

After finishing the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, give students a chance to “receive” a memory with this engaging extension activity!

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, give learners an opportunity to write a story of their own that is inspired by true events!

Help students clarify the meaning of their sentences and improve their writing by learning to identify and avoid misplaced and dangling modifiers.

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 9–14 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water. 

Students hone reading comprehension and analysis skills with this adapted excerpt from the first chapter of The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany.

In this fall-themed worksheet, students will practice identifying the relationships between words by completing a series of analogies. 

This worksheet introduces students to exponents, a key pre-algebra concept.

Prepare students for reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor by accessing and building background knowledge!

After students read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, have them compare and contrast the greasers and the Socs using this two-page novel study extension activity!

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from chapters 7–12 of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief.

Get a leap on spelling skills this February with this leap year-inspired word search puzzle!

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! 

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

Use this guide to promote in-depth discussion after students have finished reading chapters 10–13 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.

In this sixth-grade grammar worksheet, students will insert parentheses around the parenthetical element that should be set off from the rest of the sentence.

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

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this fun, summer-themed writing prompt about finding something mysterious buried in the sand!

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

Give students extra practice identifying and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers in this helpful two-page worksheet!

Give students more fun Valentine's Day spelling practice with this unique and engaging word search!

Students get helpful practice changing passive voice to active voice in the second installment of this eighth-grade grammar and writing worksheet!

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! 

Engage students this fall season with this Halloween-themed hidden picture math puzzle featuring an array of real numbers.

This graphic organizer gives students the opportunity to analyze the extent to which a filmed production of a story stays faithful to or departs from the related text.

Students read background information about April as National Volunteer Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Give young writers a chance to voice their opinion and practice their writing skills with this fun “would you rather” writing prompt!