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

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

Get students thinking and writing creatively with this prompt about a walk in the woods that takes an unexpected turn when the trail disappears beneath the snow!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

Help students to think critically and practice their writing skills with this thoughtful writing prompt based on a quote by poet Julia Alvarez.

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

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.”

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

Get students thinking deeply about their personality traits with this engaging reflective writing prompt!

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

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.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, students will practice their narrative writing techniques as they draft a story about their favorite person

Learners practice their creative writing with this fun, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a costume with a superpower twist!

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.

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

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