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

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

Help students hone their argument writing skills with this writing worksheet and graphic organizer.

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.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

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

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

Students read background information about May as Mental Health Awareness Month and then respond to reflective questions.

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

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.

Develop your students' writing skills with this character and setting worksheet!

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

If your writer needs help organizing to write that big essay assignment, give them a helpful cheat-sheet full of tips on making an outline.

Get kids in the holiday spirit by practicing 30 Days of Gratitude! This activity is perfect for November, but can also be done year-round.

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

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

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

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.

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

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

Help students to think critically and practice their writing skills with this thoughtful writing prompt based on a quote by poet Julia Alvarez.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

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.

Give your students a chance to reflect on the importance of learning and practice their writing skills with this engaging writing prompt!

Get students thinking, reflecting, and writing with this middle school narrative writing prompt and rubric!

Encourage children to reflect on the First and Fourth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution with this multi-page worksheet.