Use this vocabulary-building worksheet to help middle school students expand their knowledge of academic words in an authentic and multi-faceted way.

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

Students have the opportunity to draw conclusions about plate tectonics and Earth history by examining diagrams in this engaging science worksheet!

Use this worksheet to help middle-school writers correctly use ellipses to indicate a pause in narrative dialogue.

Use this helpful grammar worksheet to give students practice using verb voice for different effects in sentences!

Use this eighth-grade grammar worksheet to give students practice using verb mood for different effects in sentences.

Improve students' argument writing skills by identifying and removing irrelevant details with this middle school writing worksheet!

Use this engaging worksheet to introduce students to the geologic time scale and the pieces of evidence scientists use to determine Earth’s history!

Practice using parallel structure in writing with this fill-in-the-blank grammar exercise!

This eighth-grade grammar worksheet will give students practice using commas with interjections, appositives, direct addresses, and introductory phrases or clauses.

Use gel electrophoresis to solve an ice cream mystery in this fun worksheet!

 

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

Learners will practice placing either one or two dashes, as directed, in given sentences to indicate a pause or break as appropriate.

Students practice using sentence-level context clues and word relationships to determine the meaning of above-level vocabulary words.

Spot the saboteur by testing DNA in this exciting middle-grade worksheet!

Reunite a family and their long-lost dog with the help of DNA testing in this middle-grade worksheet!

Use this eighth-grade grammar and punctuation worksheet to give students practice determining if ellipses are used correctly in quotations pulled from nonfictions texts.

Use this eighth-grade worksheet to practice identifying congruent figures and mapping them onto one another using transformations on a coordinate plane!

Use this grammar worksheet to give middle school learners' a vocabulary boost as they practice determining the meaning of words using antonyms in context.

Use science to decide on the best jersey color for a professional soccer team!

Use foreshadowing to guess what will happen on this train ride!

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the author’s use of language and literary devices in this literary response worksheet.

In this eighth-grade grammar and mechanics worksheet, students will learn how to use an ellipsis to indicate an omission when quoting from a text!

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.

Use this reading guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about the final chapters of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.

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

Use this reference sheet to encourage students to use a variety of transition words in their writing to signal the different relationships between ideas.

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 5–9 of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins! 

Use this guide to promote in-depth discussion after students have finished reading chapters 10–13 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.

Confidently use coordinates to correctly identify slope in this eighth-grade worksheet!