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

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

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

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

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.

Learn onomatopoeia while you experience an exciting video game quest!

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

Put your creative side to work with this fun writing activity!

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

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

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

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

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

Let spring blossoms teach you a lesson on personification in this cheery worksheet!

Become as clever as a fox as you learn to identify and interpret similes and metaphors!

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