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.

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades! 

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

Use this worksheet with your students to help them build their vocabulary and language skills. 

Use this worksheet with your students to help them build and strengthen their vocabulary and language skills.

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

Use this middle school worksheet to introduce learners to the MLA 8th edition format for citing sources and writing a bibliography.

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

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.

Learners practice identifying restrictive and nonrestrictive elements in this middle grades grammar worksheet!

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

Help readers keep track of their independent reading with this one-page template!

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

Use these questions to encourage critical thinking and support literacy development as students read the first few diary entries of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 5–8 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

Give students more hands-on editing practice with this grammar worksheet all about parallel structure!

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

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

Encourage students to make connections as they learn new words with this creative vocabulary quilt activity!

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

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

This middle school worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

Use this graphic organizer to give students an opportunity to practice identifying the central idea of a text using key details.

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Help young writers build and strengthen their vocabulary and language skills with this great grammar worksheet!

Help students build their vocabulary and language skills with this helpful grammar worksheet! 

Give students even more hands-on editing practice with this grammar worksheet all about parallel structure!

Help students reflect on chapters 1–4 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

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