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

Learners offer advice to a younger version of themselves in this engaging reflective writing activity.

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

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

Explore spring-themed hink pink riddles with this fun word puzzle worksheet! 

In this vocabulary-building worksheet, students will read several short paragraphs and identify and match familiar words with their lesser known synonyms.

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

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 1–4 of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. 

Give your students' spelling skills a boost with this fall-themed word search puzzle!

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

Before reading Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk to Water, use these pre-reading prompts to engage students in a discussion about key story elements.

Get students thinking, reflecting, and writing with this middle school narrative writing prompt and rubric!

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.

Invite learners to practice identifying examples of hyperbole with this fun Earth Day maze!

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

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

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

Discover the differences between gerunds, infinitives, and participles with this one-page grammar worksheet!

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

Support budding authors in developing their informational writing voice with this writing worksheet.

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

In this helpful grammar worksheet, students will review the definition and examples of participles and participial phrases before practicing the skill on their own.

Introduce readers to the poem “Impressions” by American poet Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson with this eighth-grade reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for eighth grade!

Practice identifying and relating common prefixes, suffixes, and root words in vocabulary words with this helpful grammar worksheet!

In this fall-themed worksheet, students will practice identifying the relationships between words by completing a series of analogies. 

Get ready to hunker down this season with these fun winter-themed analogies!

Enjoy fall-themed hink pink riddles with this fun word puzzle worksheet!