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.

Learners use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of more common allusions.

Learners practice their creative writing with this suspenseful, Halloween-themed writing prompt about a visit to a haunted house!

Keep this study aid handy during homework time, or keep a copy in the back of your binder for classroom reference.

Encourage word sense, connotation, and wordplay with this creative worksheet where students personify a vocabulary word!

Get a leap on spelling skills this February with this leap year-inspired word search puzzle!

Assess students’ understanding of word parts and how they relate to word meaning with this grammar worksheet.

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

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 one-page grammar worksheet to give your eighth graders practice identifying and correcting indicative and subjunctive mood in sentences!

Have a laugh (or a groan) with this fun figurative language worksheet all about puns!

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

Children revisit Bram Stoker's classic Dracula novel from the perspective of two other characters in this creative writing exercise.

Let your learner try their hand at 15 rhyming riddles with this fun word puzzle worksheet!

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

Help middle school students strengthen their vocabulary knowledge with this one-page worksheet on shades of meaning! 

Students will use this fun graphic organizer to help them plan their own podcast to perfection! 

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, give students the chance to reflect on the novel and respond in writing to five of these post-reading prompts.

Learners practice differentiating between indicative or subjunctive mood in sentences in this eighth-grade grammar worksheet!

After finishing the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, give students a chance to “receive” a memory with this engaging extension activity!

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, challenge students to think about the symbolism of the costumes in the novel and get creative!

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

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

Invite your students to practice their creative storytelling with this fun, spring-themed writing prompt about a startling find in the picnic cooler!

Use this fun creative writing prompt and accompanying rubric to inspire budding authors and help them hone their narrative writing skills.

Use this fun bookmark to give readers a way to record and track the books they read!

Get students thinking and writing creatively with this prompt about a suspicious snowball that zips by while on a walk down the snowy city sidewalk!

This fun, winter-themed spelling worksheet is a creative way to encourage learners to build their vocabulary and hone their spelling skills.

Help students hone their argument writing skills with this writing worksheet and graphic organizer.