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

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

This two-page practice template guides young authors through the process of writing strong hooks, including tips, best practices, and common pitfalls.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Cite your sources correctly with these bibliography guidelines, which show how to properly cite sources like books, magazines, and web articles.

Can your child help Sarah make her writing less repetitive? This sentence combining exercise will help your child, too!

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about fall break requirements!

Share your writing with the world through any of the unique formats from this Writing With Technology Choice Board worksheet!

Young writers set off on the right foot with this realistic fiction graphic organizer.

Practicing poets can refine their sense of meter and rhythm with this worksheet about stressed and unstressed syllables.

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

Your digital native will read four text messages written in “text language” and practice their formal writing skills as they make sense of the messages.

How can you care for your community? Get students thinking deeply with this engaging Ramadan-themed writing prompt!

Prepare students for reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by having them complete this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity!

Get learners' creative juices flowing with this fun leap year-inspired writing prompt!

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

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!

Uh oh, I spy a typo! This activity will serve as a resource to help your writers understand some basic strategies and copyediting symbols for polishing their writing.

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

Learn all about the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world, and find out why Egyptians built it hundreds of years ago.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

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

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! 

This worksheet asks students to find the transition words and to use them in their own sentences.

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

The Analyzing a Poem graphic organizer supports students with specific questions to help them understand a poem.

After finishing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, students take inspiration from the main character as they rename people and places in their lives.