Homeschool Made Simple: Writing Curriculum | Mixed-Themed | Grades 6th-8th

🏡Homeschool Made Simple ™: 8-Week Writing Curriculum | STEM | Hands-On Projects | Project-based Learning | Differentiation | Grades 6th-8th

Make writing engaging, purposeful, and hands-on with this 8-week homeschool writing unit for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade!

This flexible writing resource combines writing practice, vocabulary, reading comprehension, research writing, STEM, hands-on projects, choice boards, reflective journaling, assessment, and differentiated supports to help upper-elementary students become more confident and independent writers.

Students will have opportunities to read, think, research, plan, write, create, revise, and reflect while exploring meaningful topics and completing hands-on learning experiences.

This unit helps students develop a writing process they can use across subjects:

READ → THINK → RESEARCH → PLAN → WRITE → REVISE → REFLECT

Students are encouraged to become more independent writers while developing skills in communication, research, critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving, and real-world writing.

Perfect for homeschool families looking for a structured writing resource that goes beyond isolated worksheets and gives middle school students meaningful opportunities to write about topics connected to their lives and their future.

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What's Included?

✔️ Needs Assessment

✔️ Beginning Writing Profile

✔️ Writing Schedule

✔️ Writing Prompts

✔️ Interactive Writing Activities

✔️ Vocabulary Review

✔️ 2 Reading Comprehension Activities

✔️ Research Writing Responses

✔️ 1 STEM Activity

✔️ 8 Hands-On Projects

✔️ 2 Choice Boards

✔️ 12 Activities on Each Choice Board

✔️ 2 Reflective Journal Prompts

✔️ Writing Rubric

✔️ Differentiated Learner Supports

✔️ Beginning, Middle & End Graphic Organizer

✔️ Fiction or Nonfiction Passage

Skill-building tasks reinforced by:

• Narrative Writing
• Informational Writing
• Opinion Writing
• Research Writing
• Reading Comprehension
• Vocabulary Development
• Paragraph Organization
• Critical Thinking
• STEM Integration
• Editing & Revising
• Communication
• Creativity

Top Key Concepts

⭐ The Writing Process

⭐ Reading Comprehension & Text Evidence

⭐ Narrative & Informational Writing

⭐ Research & Critical Thinking

⭐ Organization, Revision & Effective Communication

Perfect For

•  An 8-week homeschool writing curriculum
•  A middle school ELA supplement
• A writing enrichment unit
• Independent writing practice
• Homeschool co-op instruction
• Writing portfolio work
• Summer writing practice
• Language arts enrichment
•  A flexible weekly writing routine

Grades: 6th-8th

Pages: 26

Format: Printable PDF

⭐Printing Recommendation (scale to fit full page)

• Paper Size: 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) 
• Printer Setting: Letter Scale- A4  210 × 297 mm (8.27" × 11.69")
• Scale: Fit to Page or Fit Printable Area
• Fit (if needed) Orientation: Portrait (or Landscape, depending on the design)  

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