In this sixth-grade worksheet, students hone their narrative writing skills by practicing identifying and removing irrelevant details to strengthen a story.

Explore more complicated sentences as you add details about where, when, why, and how!

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 graphic organizer to give students an opportunity to practice identifying the central idea of a text using key details.

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

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.

Practice adding information to your sentences by appending appositives to nouns or noun phrases!

Compare and contrast two scenes from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Learn to identify appositives, which can provide helpful details, in this middle-grade worksheet!

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

Give students a chance to voice their opinion and practice their writing skills with this fun “would you rather” writing prompt.

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades! 

Give your learners fun spelling and problem-solving practice with this engaging anagram puzzles worksheet!

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

Give students an opportunity to flex their descriptive writing muscles with another engaging picture prompt!

Help students hone their language and vocabulary skills with this worksheet in which learners use sentence-level context clues to write the word that correctly completes each sentence.

Identify restrictive and nonrestrictive elements and add commas as needed in this essential grammar worksheet!

Add some magic to your writing with this prepositional phrase worksheet, created for middle-grade students!

Need more practice using commas with coordinate adjectives? This useful grammar worksheet can help!

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

Give your seventh-and eighth-grade students practice determining word relationships with this fun analogies worksheet!

Use this worksheet to learn about an important element of grammar, appositives!

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

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Give students extra practice identifying and correcting misused and misspelled words in context with this helpful grammar worksheet!

Hooray! You can learn to use interjections in your own writing with this engaging worksheet for fifth through eighth graders!

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a literary text with this middle school writing worksheet.