Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

This pre-writing exercise introduces five parts of a strong argument, including counter-arguments.

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a visit to a haunted house!

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

After completing S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, allow students to connect to the theme of identity with this engaging reflection activity! 

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.

This prewriting activity walks students through making an outline of a narrative essay, from the central ideas to the important details.

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about summer reading requirements!

Prepare students for reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind with these research and reflection prompts!

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

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

Young historians get to put themselves in the shoes of American colonists and report back to the king himself in this creative worksheet!

Your student can practice reading a unique style of dialogue with this worksheet on "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

Hook your students with this cookie-themed exercise that will teach the basics of strong persuasive writing.

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

Help students better understand what it means to have a topic with a broad scope versus a narrow scope with this helpful worksheet! 

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

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!

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.

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