Help students consider ways they can show courtesy to others during National Courtesy Month with this engaging writing prompt!

Help plan and research a biography with this helpful graphic organizer!

Prepare students for reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle by guiding them through this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity!

Prepare students for reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan by accessing and building background knowledge with this pre-reading activity!

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.

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

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

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

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this suspenseful, summer-themed prompt about hearing a rustling noise from the woods at summer camp!

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

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Challenge your outspoken learner to put their opinions down on paper, and practice writing persuasive text while they're at it.

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

Encourage students to use vivid, descriptive imagery with this creative worksheet!

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!

This standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 8th grade is the perfect tool to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

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

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.

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

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

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about school dress codes!

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

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

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.