Learn about common patterns in storytelling with this middle-grade worksheet!

Get ready, this activity transforms middle school students into experts at understanding and decoding characters in all their favorite stories!

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

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, summer-themed figurative language maze!

Practice identifying hyperbole with this engaging winter-themed figurative language maze!

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze.

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun, seasonal figurative language maze.

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

Invite learners to practice identifying examples of hyperbole with this fun Earth Day maze!

Invite your learners to practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze! 

Practice identifying hyperboles in this spring-themed maze designed for middle-grade students!

Practice identifying similes like a seasoned expert with this fun, spring-themed maze!

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

This is a hilarious worksheet for students to dive into as they hone their figurative language skills! Young wordsmiths will practice identifying the differences between homonyms and homophones as they analyze puns.

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s classic fantasy novel, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe!

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed similes!

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

Let your figurative language skills blossom with this middle-grade springtime metaphor maze! 

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this figurative language maze!

Celebrate our planet with this Earth Day-themed metaphors maze!

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!

Predict what will happen during the championship game with this middle-grade worksheet all about foreshadowing!

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

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

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

Discover the roadmap for your favorite stories with this middle-grade worksheet on plot archetypes!

Don’t let allusions be your white whale; master them with the help of this middle school worksheet!