Writing Workbook for 7th and 8th Grades: Middle School Writing Practice with 50 Writing Prompts (Writing Workbooks for Middle School ELA) by Elly Thorsen

This middle school writing workbook includes fifty writing prompts and is an ideal choice for seventh and eighth grade students. The workbook begins with an introduction and practice of alliteration, hyperbole, imagery, metaphors, onomatopoeia, similes, mood, tone, audience, and main idea. Then students learn about and practice the four sentence structures. Independent and dependent clauses are explained so students can understand and properly use simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compound-complex sentences in their writing. Students apply their understanding of these literary terms and sentence structures to complete a variety of writing prompts. The writing prompts include the following topics: Your Life (10 prompts) Imagine If (10 prompts) Opinion (10 prompts) Inform and Explain (10 prompts) Creative Writing (10 prompts) Read more