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

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!

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

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

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

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

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

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed similes!

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

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

Encourage critical thinking with this discussion guide as students read the next set of Anne’s diary entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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

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.”

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

After completing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, have students reflect on the significant themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

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

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

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

Encourage students to reflect on their reading identities and set a realistic reading goal with this helpful reading survey!

Engage students' senses and inspire their creativity with this sensory poem template!

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

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze.

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

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

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

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

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

Learners will practice identifying the correct verb form based on the mood of a sentence in this eighth-grade grammar worksheet!

After reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, students reflect on the major themes and events of Anne’s story with these response prompts.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!