Best Writing Prompts For Middle School - April 2024

Rip the Page!: Adventures in Creative Writing

Here are the ideas, experiments, and inspiration to unfold your imagination and get your writing to flow off the page! This is the everything-you-need guide to spark new poems and unstick old stories, including lists of big, small, gross-out, and favorite words; adventurous and zany prompts to leap from; dares and double dares to help you mash up truths and lies into outrageous paragraphs; and letters of encouragement written directly to you from famous authors, including: Annie Barrows, Naomi Shihab Nye, Lemony Snicket, C. M. Mayo, Elizabeth Singer Hunt, Moira Egan, Gary Soto, Lucille Clifton... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1590308123
• ASIN: 1590308123
• ISBN: 1590308123
• Brand: Trumpeter
• Manufacturer: Roost Books

Unjournaling: Daily Writing Exercises That Are Not Personal, Not Introspective, Not Boring!

Some people just don't want to share intimate details about their thoughts, feelings and lives―at least not with others in a class or group. That's where Unjournaling comes in. All the writing prompts in this book are entirely impersonal but completely engaging―for both kids and adults. Just a couple of examples of the 200 writing prompts on widely varied topics: Write a paragraph about a girl named Dot, but use no letters with a dot (in other words, no i or j). Why on earth would Yankee Doodle stick a feather in his cap and call it "macaroni"? Come up with a plausible explanation. The boo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1877673706
• ASIN: 1877673706
• ISBN: 9781877673702
• Manufacturer: Prufrock Press

The Writing Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Writers

The Reading Strategies Book made the New York Times Best Seller List by making it simpler to match students' needs to high-quality instruction. Now, in The Writing Strategies Book, Jen Serravallo does the same, collecting 300 of the most effective strategies to share with writers, and grouping them beneath 10 crucial goals. "You can think of the goals as the what, "writes Jen, "and the strategies as the how." From composing with pictures all the way to conventions and beyond, you'll have just-right teaching, just in time. With Jen's help you'll: develop individual goals for every writer give ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 032507822X
• ASIN: 032507822X
• ISBN: 032507822X
• Manufacturer: Heinemann

The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading: An Assess-Decide-Guide Framework for Supporting Every Reader

In this resource-rich book, you’ll find:- All the planning and instructional tools you need to teach guided reading well, from pre-A to fluent, organized around Richardson’s proven Assess-Decide-Guide framework. - Prompts, discussion starters, teaching points, word lists, intervention suggestions, and more to support all students, including dual language learners and struggling readers. - 29 comprehension modules that cover essential strategies―monitoring, retelling, inferring, summarizing, and many others. - Plus an online resource bank with dozens of downloadable assessment and record-... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1338161113
• UPC: 078073161119
• ASIN: 1338161113
• ISBN: 1338161113
• Brand: SCHOLASTIC TEACHING RESOURCES
• Manufacturer: Scholastic Professional

Take Five! for Language Arts: 180 bell-ringers that build critical-thinking skills (Maupin House)

Ready to transform those first chaotic five minutes of class into authentic learning? Then it's time to Take Five! With this resource, students will exercise their mental muscles and sharpen language arts skills as they tackle Common Core Standard-based lessons and fun-filled activities.Whether students are inventing secret codes, concocting potions, rewriting history, making conjunction paper chains, or thinking like newspaper editors, these diverse and creative prompts will have them looking forward to the part of the day when they are asked to Take Five for critical thinking. The 180-plus ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1937412032
• ASIN: 1937412032
• ISBN: 1937412032
• Brand: Brand: Maupin House Publishing
• Manufacturer: Maupin House

Summer Bridge Activities - Grades 7 - 8, Workbook for Summer Learning Loss, Math, Reading, Writing and More with Flash Cards

AWARD-WINNING WORKBOOK: Summer Bridge Activities is the recipient of the 2018 Kids' Product of the Year Award and Travel Fun of the Year Award from "Creative Child Magazine." This workbook was designed to prevent summer learning loss and help your child get a headstart on the next year. INCLUDES: One Summer Bridge Activities workbook for 7th to 8th grade. This workbook focuses on all subjects - math, writing, reading, science, social studies, fitness and character building. It also includes bonus stickers and flash cards. 15 MINUTES A DAY: These best-selling summer activity books are designed ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1483815870
• UPC: 044222242725
• ASIN: 1483815870
• ISBN: 1483815870
• Brand: Carson-Dellosa
• Manufacturer: Summer Bridge Activities

The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students' Thinking and Writing

Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. "I don't have anything to write about!" they say. And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pieces? A powerful tool to jumpstart writing In The Quickwrite Handbook, master teacher Linda Rief shares 100 compelling mentor texts and shows how to use each one as a powerful tool for sparking successful writing. Each mentor text includes "Try this" suggestions for inviting students to get started. You'll also find "Interludes" woven throughout: examples of quickwrites that students crafted into... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0325098123
• ASIN: 0325098123
• ISBN: 0325098123
• Manufacturer: Heinemann

Just Between Us: Mother & Daughter: A No-Stress, No-Rules Journal (Activity Journal for Teen Girls and Moms, Diary for Tween Girls)

Looking for tween gifts for girls or the perfect mother gift?A journal for girls or girl's diary—Just Between Us: Mother and Daughter: "Packed with writing prompts, it's the perfect gift for Mother's Day."— Girl's Life magazineHave you ever wondered...What your mom thought the moment you were born?Or where your daughter would go if she could go anywhere in the universe?Just Between US—The mother daughter journal: Thoughtful writing prompts and entertaining mini quizzes in this beautiful mom and daughter journal pave the way to discussing everything from friends and school to crushes and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0811868958
• ASIN: 0811868958
• ISBN: 0811868958
• Brand: Chronicle Books CA
• Manufacturer: Chronicle Books

Common Core: Elements of Literature, Grades 6 - 8

Centered around Common Core State Standards, Common Core: Elements of Literature is designed to help students understand such complex elements of literature as irony and symbolism. Practice pages, student charts, graphic organizers, research challenges, discussion starters, writing prompts, games, group activities, and recommended reading lists enable students to practice: Pinpointing character, setting, plot, and theme; uncovering common symbols in fiction; detecting similes, metaphors, and other figures of speech; spotting verbal, situational, and dramatic irony; and recognizing allegory, pa... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1622234642
• UPC: 044222236274
• ASIN: 1622234642
• ISBN: 1622234642
• Brand: Carson-Dellosa
• Manufacturer: Mark Twain Media

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393320979
• ASIN: 0393320979
• ISBN: 9780393320978
• Brand: W W Norton Company
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

• ASIN: 0763680893
• ASIN: 0763680893
• ISBN: 0763680893
• Brand: CANDLEWICK PRESS
• Manufacturer: Candlewick

The House of the Scorpion

Series: National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature, Newbery Honor Book, Printz Honor BookMatteo Alacrán was not born; he was harvested.His DNA came from El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium--a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico. Matt's first cell split and divided inside a petri dish. Then he was placed in the womb of a cow, where he continued the miraculous journey from embryo to fetus to baby. He is a boy now, but most consider him a monster--except for El Patrón. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0689852231
• ASIN: 0689852231
• ISBN: 9780689852237
• Brand: Perfection Learning
• Manufacturer: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Scholastic Success with Writing, Grade 5

Give students the targeted, skill-building practice they need with these standards-based books! Each workbook includes more than 40 ready-to-reproduce practice pages. Easy-to-follow directions and fun exercises motivate students to work on their own. Every activity in each book is correlated to state standards. For use with Grade 5.

• ASIN: 054520075X
• ASIN: 054520075X
• ISBN: 054520075X
• Brand: Scholastic
• Size: 8 3/8" x 10 7/8"
• Manufacturer: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching

Scholastic Success With: Grammar, Grade 3

Give students the targeted, skill-building practice they need with these standards-based books! Each workbook includes more than 40 ready-to-reproduce practice pages. Easy-to-follow directions and fun exercises motivate students to work on their own. Every activity in each book is correlated to state standards. For use with Grade 3.

• ASIN: 0545201055
• ASIN: 0545201055
• ISBN: 0545201055
• Brand: Scholastic
• Size: 8 3/8" x 10 7/8"
• Manufacturer: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching

Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6)

• ASIN: 1419702238
• ASIN: 1419702238
• ISBN: 9781419702235
• Brand: Amulet Books
• Manufacturer: Amulet Books

The Writer's Toolbox: Creative Games and Exercises for Inspiring the 'Write' Side of Your Brain (Writing Prompts, Writer Gifts, Writing Kit Gifts)

9780811854290

• UPC: 159924861

1200 Creative Writing Prompts

If you're looking for writing ideas, you've come to the right place. Perfect for writers who are feeling uninspired or who simply want to tackle a new writing challenge, 1200 Creative Writing Prompts has something

• UPC: 53344910

Write It Out : Hundreds of Writing Prompts to Inspire Creative Thinking

Provides writing prompts to spark the imagination and inspire the creation of a varied collection of creative

• UPC: 50721843

365 Writing Prompts for Kids

Writing Prompts for Kids to Inspire Creative Thinking Shortlisted for Young Writers best choice award. As a parent, you know the importance of growing and challenging your child's creativity and improving their writing and conceptual

• UPC: 696775610

Middle School: Dog's Best Friend

"Life in middle school is finally starting to seem bearable--until Rafe spots his grandmother standing on the free-meal line at the local soup kitchen. In order to help bring in more money, Rafe concocts a

• UPC: 52582405
• Rating: 4.0

The Amazing Story Generator : Creates Thousands of Writing Prompts

The Amazing Story Generator creates thousands of different story prompts! This flipbook for writers and other creative types allows users to randomly combine three different elements to generate a unique story idea. With hundreds of

• UPC: 20663062

Soul Journal : A Writing Prompts Journal for Self-Discovery

You didn't arrive here by accident. It's time to unearth your inner wisdom. It's time to remember that you are already whole; everything you need is already within you. This guided journal - with 124

• UPC: 537362604

Standards-Based Science: Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, and Writing Prompts for Middle Grade Students

This bank of graphic organizers, rubrics, and writing prompts are a timesaver for busy teachers. You can help your students organize their ideas with the graphic organizers or collaborate to develop a plan for evaluation

• UPC: 33432563

Write Away : A Workbook of Creative and Narrative Writing Prompts

Exercises, tools, and tips will teach third graders how to spice up their stories with sensory words, action verbs, supporting details, and point of view. They'll also learn about personal narrative writing, creating a biography,

• UPC: 46038184

Traits of Writing : The Complete Guide for Middle School

Featuring classroom-tested materials developed just for teachers of grades 6-8, this new collection includes scoring guides, warm-up exercises, and activities that make it easy to teach and assess

• UPC: 11602625