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

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

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

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

Learn onomatopoeia while you experience an exciting video game quest!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

May the summer sun smile upon you as you complete this personification worksheet for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders!

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

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

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

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

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!