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

Use this Evaluating Sources Checklist to help students evaluate their sources for relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability.

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

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this summer-themed writing prompt about spending time outdoors!

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

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

Getting ready to write an informational essay? Use this five-page outline to help think through the next stages of the informational writing process!

Learners offer advice to a younger version of themselves in this engaging reflective writing activity.

Write a heartfelt letter to someone who has impacted your life with this SEL writing prompt for middle grades!

Young writers reflect on a time they worked hard to earn something! Kick off the writing process with this narrative writing graphic organizer.

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

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

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

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

Support budding authors in developing their informational writing voice with this writing worksheet.

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

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

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

Engage students' senses and inspire their creativity with this sensory poem template!

Guide student research about women’s suffrage around the world with this two-page research graphic organizer!

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

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

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

Have middle school students use these writing prompts as a jumping off point as they set out to write an informational essay.

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.

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this exciting, summer-themed prompt about a strange encounter at a local carnival!

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.”