Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.

What does it all mean? In this sixth-grade worksheet, students will practice using text evidence to identify the theme of a story they've read recently.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

Help your students learn to analyze characters in literature with the help of this graphic organizer.

Have your students describe themselves using numerical expressions in this fun math-based get-to-know-you activity!

Introduce yourself, and get to know others, with this fun science-themed questionnaire!

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

Introduce yourself—and get to know others—with this fun questionnaire!

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

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

Practice spelling with plurals and possessives in this grammar worksheet for middle grades!

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.

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.

Get to know your classmates with these social studies-themed prompts!

Learn about your classmates’ preferences on entertainment, weather, food, travel, and everything in between with this “would you rather” activity!

Get to know your students and their reading taste with this brief but engaging reading survey!

Use this reading survey to get to know your students’ reading habits and encourage them to reflect on their relationship with reading.

Are kids today spending enough time outdoors?  Make your case in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle grades!

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

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.

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

After finishing Walter Lord’s A Night to Remember, give readers a chance to act as a reporter in order to share the story with the public!

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

Get ready, this activity transforms middle school students into experts at understanding and decoding characters in all their favorite stories!

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

Teachers open your mind to all kinds of new possibilities!

This rubric for sixth-grade argument writing covers all of the major Common Core standards in the argument writing strand, including introduction, support, transitions, style, and conclusion.

Learn all about the history of candles with this two-page nonfiction reading worksheet!