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

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Use this vocabulary-building worksheet to help middle school students expand their knowledge of academic words in an authentic and multi-faceted way.

Before reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, use this pre-reading activity to get readers thinking about one of the major themes in the novel: stereotypes.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Identify restrictive and nonrestrictive elements and add commas as needed in this essential grammar worksheet!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Help students better understand what it means to have a topic with a broad scope versus a narrow scope with this helpful worksheet! 

Learn about Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, a Chinese-American suffragist, activist, and minister of the early 20th century with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this summer-themed writing prompt about spending time outdoors!

Engage students' senses and inspire their creativity with this sensory poem template!

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

Use this worksheet with your students to help them build their vocabulary and language skills.

Practice identifying and relating common prefixes, suffixes, and root words in vocabulary words with this helpful grammar worksheet!

Learners offer advice to a younger version of themselves in this engaging reflective writing activity.

Practice using parallel structure in writing with this fill-in-the-blank grammar exercise!

Middle school writers practice rewriting sentences using personification to add description and make the sentences more exciting!

Help eighth-grade learners strengthen their vocabulary knowledge with this simple one-page worksheet on shades of meaning.

Read and analyze a classic example of historical fiction with this adapted excerpt from Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper!

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

Assess students’ understanding of word parts and how they relate to word meaning with this grammar worksheet.

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

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

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

In this fall-themed worksheet, students will practice identifying the relationships between words by completing a series of analogies. 

Encourage students to explore the notion of identity with this reflective writing and drawing prompt!

Use this one-page grammar worksheet to give your eighth graders practice identifying and correcting indicative and subjunctive mood in sentences!

Use this Evaluating Sources Checklist to help students evaluate their sources for relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability.

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

Have middle school students use these writing prompts as a jumping off point as they set out to write an informational essay.