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

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

Learn about common patterns in storytelling with this middle-grade 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! 

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

Unlock the secret to words like “biodegradable” and “astronomer!” Expand your vocabulary with this matching worksheet for common Greek roots.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

Practice determining the meaning of unknown words in context with Read and Find Root Words #2!

Semicolons link two related independent clauses together; learn to use them correctly with this middle-grade worksheet!

Give students extra practice identifying and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers in this helpful two-page worksheet!

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

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

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

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

Support students’ inference skills with this targeted two-page reading worksheet. 

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

After reading the next few chapters of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s Esperanza Rising, engage students in discussion with this two-page guide!

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Help students reflect on chapters 5–8 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons.

Review common vocabulary words with this fun and creative color-by-number worksheet!

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

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

Get ready, this activity transforms middle school students into experts at understanding and decoding characters in all their favorite stories!

Unlock the secret to words like "dynamite" and "calligraphy!" Expand your vocabulary with this matching worksheet for common Greek roots.

Students will look closely at roots, prefixes, and suffixes in order to better understand how a group of words can share a common word part.

Use this two-page graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast informational narratives from two different genres.