5th - 8th Grade Common Core Educational Resources : Page 4

In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners compare and contrast two poems, focusing on structure, tone, and literary devices used in each.

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Introduce readers to the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet! 

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

Learners use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of more common allusions.

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

Practice solving one-step addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division equations as you make your way through this fun maze!

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! ​Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.

Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!

Assess your students’ knowledge of important fifth grade fraction concepts!

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

Introduce your students to vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.

Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.

Get a taste of verbal irony with this figurative language worksheet in which students study the definitions and examples of sarcasm, exaggeration, and understatement.

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of their own.

Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into larger-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!

Students will learn to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, and personification in writing.