Use this worksheet to help middle-school writers correctly use ellipses to indicate a pause in narrative dialogue.

Use this reference sheet to encourage students to use a variety of transition words in their writing to signal the different relationships between ideas.

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

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

Students will use this fun graphic organizer to help them plan their own podcast to perfection! 

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

Use this inspirational personal narrative prompt and standards-based rubric to help middle schoolers hone their narrative writing skills.

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

Have middle school students use these writing prompts as a jumping off point as they set out to write an informational essay.

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

Hooray! You can learn to use interjections in your own writing with this engaging worksheet for fifth through eighth graders!

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

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the author’s use of language and literary devices in this literary response worksheet.

Before reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, use this pre-reading activity to build background knowledge and engagement. 

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

Use this graphic organizer to guide students' reflections after listening to an episode of a podcast.

Use this reading survey to get to know your students’ reading habits and encourage them to reflect on their relationship with reading.

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

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Use this reflective writing worksheet to encourage a growth mindset in students and strengthen important social emotional skills!

Hmm, are you familiar with interjections? In this worksheet, fifth through eighth graders will use interjections to reflect different feelings.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Wow, who knew interjections could be so fun? Use interjections in this open-ended worksheet for fifth through eighth graders!

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, let students use their creativity to model the two main settings from the story!

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.

Use this graphic organizer to help students build critical thinking skills as they plan an argumentative essay about whether people or organizations should be allowed to do certain things.

In this two-page grammar worksheet for eighth grade, students will read sentences written using passive voice and rewrite them using active voice!

Invite learners to research Easter and record their findings using this spring-inspired research template!

Invite learners to research Passover and record their findings using this appealing research template!

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.