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!

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!

Research your dream career with this graphic organizer! Pick a career to learn about, and then compile your notes in this worksheet.

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

Help budding authors practice giving personality to their narrative writing with the exercises in this writing worksheet.

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

Support budding authors in developing their informational writing voice with this writing worksheet.

Use this fun, winter-themed writing worksheet to help students learn the difference between formal and informal writing.

Learners write an argumentative response with this Earth Day-themed writing prompt about plastic bags. 

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.

With this middle-school revision checklist, students will be guided to review their informational writing with a critical eye in order to improve their writing.

When writing an informational essay, start with gathering information with the help of this research graphic organizer template.

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

Use this middle school worksheet to introduce learners to the MLA 8th edition format for citing sources and writing a bibliography.

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

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this exciting, summer-themed prompt about a strange encounter at a local carnival!

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