Use this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women to help your middle schooler analyze plot development!

Commas and dashes are both used to indicate pauses or breaks, but what’s the difference? Help your learners find out with this engaging one-page worksheet!

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.

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

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

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.

This standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 8th grade is the perfect tool to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

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

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the major themes and events from The Giver.

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

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

Should all people have a right to internet access? Argue your stance in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle school!

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

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

Students read background information about August as National Sandwich Month and then respond to reflective questions.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners compare and contrast two poems, focusing on structure, tone, and literary devices used in each.

Use this fun, winter-themed writing worksheet to help students learn the difference between formal and informal writing.

Identifying gerunds and gerund phrases is smooth sailing with this simple, one-page worksheet for seventh- and eighth-grade students!

Build background knowledge about social classes in the early 1900s as students prepare to read A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

Use this inspirational personal narrative prompt and standards-based rubric to help middle schoolers hone their narrative writing skills.

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

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

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

Give students more fun Valentine's Day spelling practice with this unique and engaging word search!

Help eighth-grade learners strengthen their vocabulary knowledge with this simple one-page worksheet on shades of meaning.

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

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

In this two-page grammar worksheet for eighth grade, students will read sentences written using passive voice and rewrite them using active voice!

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

Get students thinking deeply with this spring-themed writing prompt about new beginnings!