Essay writing is a smart skill for homeschool middle schoolers to develop.

Middle School Guide to Essay Writing is created to give your middle schooler a successful essay-writing experience. The guide introduces essays to your homeschool in a user-friendly, no-busywork format. 

This is a 10-week, 4 days per week guide. It comes as a downloadable pdf.  

Middle School Guide to Essay Writing teaches:

• Basic essay format
• Persuasive essays
• Literary analysis
• Compare/contrast essays
• Editorials/letters to the editor
• Tips for taking a short-answer essay test

The Guide includes 3 essay rubrics that you can use to grade the essays, as well as an answer key to the short-answer essay test.

Click here to view an excerpt from Middle School Guide to Essay Writing.

For helpful blog posts on essay writing in middle school:

• Middle School Essay Writing - Help for Your Homeschool
• Homeschool Essays for ANY Kind of Writer

Even reluctant writers can build a strong skill set for essay-writing with a curriculum that breaks the process into manageable steps and doesn't waste their time with busywork. The logical thinking process behind a well-written essay is not intuitive to most kids; Middle School Guide to Essay Writing presents the process in a friendly, conversational style that wins over even a student who says, "I don't know what to write!!"

What people are saying:

"...Middle school writing is doing a tremendous job in changing their perspective/attitude from "hating" to at least "liking" writing work for the day." - E.V.