5th - 8th Grade English Language Arts Resources : Page 2

In this worksheet, students will read about Anne Frank, then complete a chart identifying cause and effect.

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

Students read all about seaweed and answer standards-based comprehension questions in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Introduce readers to the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Students read a two-page adaptation of "The Gift of the Magi" and dig deep into the figurative language and literary devices of this classic story!

Help students hone their language and vocabulary skills with this worksheet in which learners use sentence-level context clues to write the word that correctly completes each sentence.

Children are introduced to Tennyson the Turtle, a reptile who likes to use metaphors and similes, in this appealing worksheet!

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades! 

Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

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

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

Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.

Let your young writer relax by practicing writing notes to friends, journal entries, and even a grocery list!

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

In this vocabulary-building worksheet, students will read several short paragraphs and identify and match familiar words with their lesser known synonyms.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners compare and contrast two poems, focusing on structure, tone, and literary devices used in each.

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

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

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

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

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

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! ​Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.

Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!