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

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

Introduce students to the classic poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Read and answer comprehension questions about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's classic narrative poem "Paul Revere’s Ride."

Introduce readers to the poem “I like to see it lap the Miles” by beloved American poet Emily Dickinson.

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

This seventh-grade worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this eighth-grade worksheet!

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, challenge students to think about the symbolism of the costumes in the novel and get creative!

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

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

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

Explore figurative language in context with this personification worksheet designed for fifth through eigth graders! 

Collect examples of personification as you read with this helpful worksheet!

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