Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

Help readers keep track of their independent reading with this one-page template!

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

Use these questions to encourage critical thinking and support literacy development as students read the first few diary entries of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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

Young writers reflect on a time they worked hard to earn something! Kick off the writing process with this narrative writing graphic organizer.

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 5–8 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

Give students practice changing passive voice to active voice with this eighth-grade grammar and writing worksheet! 

Give students more hands-on editing practice with this grammar worksheet all about parallel structure!

Get students thinking deeply about their personality traits with this engaging reflective writing prompt!

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, students will practice their narrative writing techniques as they draft a story about their favorite person

Encourage students to make connections as they learn new words with this creative vocabulary quilt activity!

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

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

In this eighth-grade grammar worksheet, learners will read sentences and determine whether the underlined section is written in active or passive voice.

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Help young writers build and strengthen their vocabulary and language skills with this great grammar worksheet!

Help students build their vocabulary and language skills with this helpful grammar worksheet! 

Give students even more hands-on editing practice with this grammar worksheet all about parallel structure!

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this exciting, summer-themed prompt about a strange encounter at a local carnival!

Write a heartfelt letter to someone who has impacted your life with this SEL writing prompt for middle grades!

Encourage students to reflect on their reading identities and set a realistic reading goal with this helpful reading survey!

Use this graphic organizer to help students build critical thinking skills as they plan an argumentative essay about whether people or organizations should be allowed to do certain things.

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

Identifying gerunds and gerund phrases is smooth sailing with this simple, one-page worksheet for seventh- and eighth-grade students!

Use this eighth-grade grammar and punctuation worksheet to give students practice determining if ellipses are used correctly in quotations pulled from nonfictions texts.

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

Invite your students to practice their creative storytelling with this fun, spring-themed writing prompt about a startling find in the picnic cooler!

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for eighth grade!