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!

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.”

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!

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.

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!

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.

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

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a particularly eerie night of trick-or-treating!

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the major themes and events from The Giver.

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.