Help your students review how develop a claim and support that claim with evidence. A claim is an opinion about a story that you can support with evidence.

Students read background information about July as National Anti-Boredom Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

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! 

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

Being a fish might be fun! Your young writer can write their own under the sea story with this creative writing prompt.

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have young readers select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

Integrate writing and science with this research graphic organizer in which students research and record information about an invasive species in their local region.

Are kids today spending enough time outdoors?  Make your case in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle grades!

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

Get to know grandpa a little better with a fun interview exercise! Your writer will practice building sentences and using descriptive language.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a particularly eerie night of trick-or-treating!

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

Where does the food in the grocery store come from? Get your student ready to investigate their local grocery store with this fun worksheet and activity.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

Invite your students to practice their creative storytelling with this fun, spring-themed writing prompt about a harrowing experience at a baseball game!

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

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Choose your literary nonfiction response prompt! Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the impact of an author’s word choice.

Inspire creative thinking this Earth Day with a nature-themed reflective writing prompt.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Is the sleeping dragon a watchdog or a pet? Your fifth grader can write her own story with this fun writing prompt.

Writing a paper doesn't have to be boring! Introduce your student to research and writing with this thorough guide.

Can you tell the difference between fact and opinion? Hone writing skills by identifying opinion vs fact.

Help students learn how to recognize the beats in a poem with this worksheet.