Discover what the school year ahead has in store for you with a paper fortune teller!

Give students the opportunity to share their opinions and preferences regarding school-related topics with this fun back-to-school anticipatory activity!

Discover what’s happening at the school newspaper by finding the present progressive tense verbs to fill in the blanks!

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

Send a letter to your future self with this back-to-school writing prompt!

Write about a mysterious message with this fun prompt!

Inspire your learners' creative writing with this fun writing prompt about an end-of-school-year class trip!

Emphasize student choice with this high-interest, differentiated word study activity!

Introduce your students to argument writing with this high-interest prompt about homework!

Use this survey to help students think about their opinions and reasoning for eight high-interest prompts.

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Use this example of a persuasive essay to dissect and identify the parts of this genre.

Students will look at a sample essay and try to pick out the kind of details and big ideas that make an informative essay tick.

Get ready for the back to school season with a printable to-do list full of fall colors, a great start to an organized school year!

Your students will be ready to share their opinions and evidence when answering high interest persuasive writing prompts.

In this worksheet, students will explain two ways in which high frequency words are used as multiple parts of speech. Words include swing, color, admit, and answer.

What unusual item could your character find in the library? Find out with this fun writing activity!

If you could have music class with any famous musician, who would it be? Write about it with this creative writing prompt!

Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

Inspire your learners' creative writing with this fun writing prompt about a mysterious message in a yearbook!

Inspire your learners' creative writing with this fun writing prompt about a surprise discovery!

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Think about what you want to improve about yourself as you start the new school year with this writing prompt!

Use this multiple-meaning words worksheet to support middle school students as they explore a word with more than one meaning. 

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

Get to know your students and allow them to get to know each other with this fun back-to-school worksheet! 

Students take emojis from text to paper, using them as prompts for identifying and reflecting upon their own feelings.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

We’ve all started a new school or class, but each experience is unique! Write about yours with this third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade prompt.