Give students a chance to engage with a classic science fiction story while practicing crucial reading comprehension skills!

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

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

Assess your students’ argument writing skills with a standards-based rubric for eighth grade.

Get learners' creative juices flowing with this fun leap year-inspired writing prompt!

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

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

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

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.

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

Students read background information about July as National Anti-Boredom Month and then respond to reflective questions.

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.

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

Boost students' spelling skills this fall with this autumn-themed word search puzzle!

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

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

Give your students a chance to voice their opinion and practice their writing skills with this fun “would you rather” writing prompt!

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

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

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

Incorporate spelling practice into your Presidents' Day celebrations with this festive word search activity!

After students read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, have them compare and contrast the greasers and the Socs using this two-page novel study extension activity!

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

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.

Give blossoming authors a chance to practice their creative writing skills with this realistic fiction writing prompt and standards-based rubric.

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

Get a taste of verbal irony with this figurative language worksheet in which students study the definitions and examples of sarcasm, exaggeration, and understatement.

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

Invite students to inventory their vocabulary knowledge with this adaptable graphic organizer!

Get readers to track the books they’re reading throughout the year with this fun visual reading log!