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

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

Introduce students to the power of self-appreciation with this inspiring writing activity!

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Introduce learners to the American advocate Dorothea Dix with this three-page informational reading comprehension worksheet.

Give students extra practice naming the function of clauses in this seventh-grade grammar worksheet!

Use this worksheet with your students to help them build and strengthen their vocabulary and language skills.

Get middle schoolers talking about the nuance and connotation of words and how they affect the meaning of a sentence with this helpful worksheet.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

Read and analyze a classic example of historical fiction with this adapted excerpt from Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper!

Use this Evaluating Sources Checklist to help students evaluate their sources for relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability.

Learners practice identifying restrictive and nonrestrictive elements in this middle grades grammar worksheet!

Help students better understand what it means to have a topic with a broad scope versus a narrow scope with this helpful worksheet! 

Learners will practice adding commas between coordinate adjectives in sentences in this helpful, one-page worksheet.

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

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

In this helpful grammar worksheet, students will review the definition and examples of participles and participial phrases before practicing the skill on their own.

Help students hone their spelling and vocabulary skills with this fun summer-themed grammar worksheet.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

Explore summer-themed hink pink riddles with this fun word puzzle worksheet! 

Flex those grammar muscles as you put in more practice identifying phrases and clauses in sentences in this seventh-grade grammar worksheet!

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

Emphasize student choice with this high-interest, differentiated word study activity!

In this vocabulary-building worksheet, students will read several short paragraphs and identify and match familiar words with their lesser known synonyms.

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this figurative language maze!

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!