5th - 8th Grade English Language Arts Resources : Page 34

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Writing About Math Expressions.

Build background knowledge about social classes in the early 1900s as students prepare to read A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

Get ready to hunker down this season with these fun winter-themed analogies!

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Children will boost their negative word vocabulary, and then practice spotting double negatives in sentences.

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

Learn all about wildfires, a natural phenomenon looked upon with awe and caution.

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

Learn all about root words and prefixes, then try your hand at defining them, in this quick and easy practice activity about words with prefixes.

Young historians will love learning facts about the famous Viking explorer Leif Ericson while practicing their reading comprehension and writing skills.

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

Children learn how to capitalize and punctuate titles, including guidelines for when to underline, italicize, or use quotes.

Give your students some practice writing an informational essay about the American Revolution!

Children revisit Bram Stoker's classic Dracula novel from the perspective of two other characters in this creative writing exercise.

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

In this exercise, students will strengthen their understanding of how suffixes change the meaning of a word.

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 12–17 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Flex those grammar muscles as you put in more practice identifying phrases and clauses in sentences in this seventh-grade grammar worksheet!

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Give your students a chance to think critically and practice their writing skills with this engaging writing prompt.

Students practice adding emphasis to their writing with intensive pronouns in this sixth-grade grammar worksheet.

In this Court Cases worksheet, students read descriptions of five landmark decisions, then match them to their correct name.