Middle School / Grade 6-8 Peer Writing Critiques

Separate writing prompts are available for:

• Grades 2 and 3
  
• Grades 4 and 5

See Ideas for Managing Daily Writing Activities for more ideas about using the writing activities on this site.

Each of our Daily Writing Activities includes a sentence to edit, as well as a writing prompt.  When students share their writing responses with us, we post them on the site for you to read, enjoy, and critique.

These actual student writing samples are a great opportunity for other students to analyze the quality of writing.  Your students can identify strengths and areas for improvement in these writing samples, using checklists and guidelines from your class or school district.

Other possible guiding questions as students critique peer writing:

• Does the writing address the prompt completely and stay on topic?
• Does the writer's use of details help or hinder the main message?
• Is this writing original and interesting or predictable?
• Is this writing organized in a way that works well?
  
• If you could give this writer a compliment, what would you say?
• If you could give this writer advice, what would you say?

 

   

The following middle school writing activities currently have student writing samples posted:

MS Writing Prompts with Student Writing Samples

Grade 6-8 Writing Activity 1
Grade 6-8 Writing Activity 2

Grade 6-8 Writing Activity 4
Grade 6-8 Writing Activity 5

Grade 6-8 Writing Activity 7

Grade 6-8 Writing Activity 13
Grade 6-8 Writing Activity 15
Grade 6-8 Writing Activity 24

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