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

Use this Evaluating Sources Checklist to help students evaluate their sources for relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability.

Use these questions to encourage critical thinking and support literacy development as students read the first few diary entries of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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

Get your feet wet with this one-page reading comprehension worksheet on the challenging sport of artistic swimming!

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

Let your learner try their hand at 15 rhyming riddles with this fun word puzzle worksheet!

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–5 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, students will practice their narrative writing techniques as they draft a story about their favorite person

In this reading and writing worksheet, students will read several short paragraphs and identify and match familiar words with their less familiar antonyms.

Give your learners fun spelling and problem-solving practice with this engaging anagram puzzles worksheet!

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.

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

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

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

Students practice differentiating between gerund phrases, infinitive phrases, and participial phrases in this grammar worksheet!

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

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

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.

Help students build their vocabulary and language skills with this helpful grammar worksheet! 

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

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

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