Brush up on your figurative language skills this fall season with this engaging metaphors maze!

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

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

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

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

This middle school 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 middle grades worksheet! 

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Practice using personification with this autumnal worksheet created for fifth through eighth graders!

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

Strengthen reading comprehension and literary analysis skills with this sixth through eighth grade foreshadowing worksheet!

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

Write an eloquent, nature-inspired personification poem with this guided worksheet for seventh graders!

Middle school students will become masters at decoding characters in their favorite stories after they complete this activity!