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!

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

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!

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

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.

Identify irony in context in this helpful worksheet!

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! 

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