Have your students describe themselves using numerical expressions in this fun math-based get-to-know-you activity!

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, readers reflect on the theme of individuality vs. conformity in this fun post-reading activity. 

In this worksheet, learners come to better understand the different kinds of narratives, and how they are similar and different, by creating a map of narrative genres.

Explore different types of sentences with this helpful grammar worksheet!

Students practice comparing and contrasting two versions of the same piece of text—written and audio/visual—with this graphic organizer!

Upon finishing The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, readers compare the written and visual forms of the story in this extension activity!

After reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver, watch the movie adaptation in order to compare the written and visual forms of the story!

In this seventh-grade grammar worksheet, students will practice identifying the different types of sentences and examples of each.

Help your writing sing with personification! Practice identifying the different examples of personification in this poem by Emily Dickinson.

Use this two-page graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast informational narratives from two different genres.

Help middle school students learn to determine the different shades of meaning of related words with this language and vocabulary worksheet!

After finishing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, give students a chance to watch a movie adaptation and compare the written and visual forms of the story.

Hmm, are you familiar with interjections? In this worksheet, fifth through eighth graders will use interjections to reflect different feelings.

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades! 

In this language and vocabulary worksheet, students describe the difference between related words to bring to light the different connotations the words carry.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

Analyze different points of views and perspectives in a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

Use this reference sheet to encourage students to use a variety of transition words in their writing to signal the different relationships between ideas.

Middle school students will uncover the blueprints of every legendary tale as they learn, identify, and draw symbols for six different plot archetypes!

Students practice differentiating between gerund phrases, infinitive phrases, and participial phrases in this grammar worksheet!

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with this Valentine's Day-themed metaphors maze!

Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!

After reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, students compare the movie adaptation to the written story.

After finishing Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, students explore the role that resistance played in the Holocaust.

Help budding authors practice giving personality to their narrative writing with the exercises in this writing worksheet.

Support budding authors in developing their informational writing voice with this writing worksheet.