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

Check students’ understanding and analysis of chapters 13 through 28 of Louis Sachar’s Holes with this discussion guide!

Assess your students’ argument writing skills with a standards-based rubric for eighth grade.

Assess your students’ argument writing skills with this standards-based rubric for seventh grade!

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for seventh grade!

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for eighth grade!

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for sixth grade!

Give middle-grade students a painless beginner's introduction to the periodic table of elements with this fun worksheet.

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

Use this standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 7th grade to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

This standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 8th grade is the perfect tool to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

This rubric for sixth-grade argument writing covers all of the major Common Core standards in the argument writing strand, including introduction, support, transitions, style, and conclusion.

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 6–11 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Middle school students will uncover the blueprints of every legendary tale as they learn, identify, and draw symbols for six different plot archetypes!

Give your students a chance to voice their opinion and practice their writing skills with this fun “would you rather” writing prompt.

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

Probability can be as easy as rolling dice! What is the probability of rolling a 2? What about a 6? Practice calculating basic probability with this worksheet.

Give your students a chance to think critically and practice their writing skills with this engaging writing prompt!

In this grammar worksheet, 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.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions after students read chapters 1–6 of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. 

Use this reading guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about the final chapters of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.

Scale up your knowledge of scale factors with this engaging seventh-grade worksheet!

Master factoring in this seventh-grade algebra worksheet!

Learn about common patterns in storytelling with this middle-grade worksheet!

Master congruent figures in this eighth-grade geometry worksheet!

Sharpen your statistics skills with this sixth-grade worksheet!

Practice identifying and writing algebraic expressions with this sixth-grade algebra worksheet!

Spot solutions to systems of equations with this helpful eighth-grade worksheet!

Students explore distributions in dot plots with this sixth-grade statistics worksheet!