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!

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!

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

Don’t let allusions be your white whale; master them with the help of this middle school worksheet!

Don’t let allusions be your Achilles’ heel—practice interpreting and writing them with this seventh- and eighth-grade worksheet!

Middle school students will uncover the blueprints of every legendary tale as they learn, identify, and draw symbols for six different plot archetypes!

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

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

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

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

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

Discover the roadmap for your favorite stories with this middle-grade worksheet on plot archetypes!

Learn onomatopoeia while you experience an exciting video game quest!

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

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

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s classic fantasy novel, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe!

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

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

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