Use foreshadowing to guess what will happen on this train ride!

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

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

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Practice using personification with this autumnal worksheet created for fifth through eighth graders!

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

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

Listen to burgers sizzle and rain patter in this camping-themed onomatopoeia worksheet, designed for fourth and fifth graders!

Let your figurative language skills blossom with this middle-grade springtime metaphor maze! 

Explore figurative language fun with this engaging worksheet!

Middle school students will become masters at decoding characters in their favorite stories after they complete this activity!

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

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

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

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

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, challenge students to think about the symbolism of the costumes in the novel and get creative!

Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!

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

Let the cold winter wind guide you to personification mastery with this fourth- through sixth-grade worksheet! 

Bring opposites together to form oxymorons in this worksheet on figurative language!

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

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

Practice identifying similes like a seasoned expert with this fun, spring-themed maze!

Write an eloquent, nature-inspired personification poem with this guided worksheet for seventh graders!

Explore figurative language in context with this personification worksheet designed for fifth through eigth graders! 

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

Predict what will happen during the championship game with this middle-grade worksheet all about foreshadowing!

Unmask the cast of every story with this worksheet for middle schoolers on character archetypes!