Students read background information about the Missouri Compromise and examine a map illustrating the Missouri Compromise’s boundaries and special exceptions.

Learners will use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of common allusions.

Learners will practice identifying the correct verb form based on the mood of a sentence in this eighth-grade grammar worksheet!

Help students learn how to avoid informal language in their nonfiction writing with this helpful formal writing worksheet.

Identifying gerunds and gerund phrases is smooth sailing with this simple, one-page worksheet for seventh- and eighth-grade students!

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.

Discover the differences between gerunds, infinitives, and participles with this one-page grammar worksheet!

Learners use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of more common allusions.

Improve students' argument writing skills by identifying and removing irrelevant details with this middle school writing worksheet!

Get a taste of verbal irony with this figurative language worksheet in which students study the definitions and examples of sarcasm, exaggeration, and understatement.

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 practice researching, organizing, and analyzing historical information with this helpful social studies worksheet!

Students review a timeline and answer questions about key historical events that took place from 1763 in lead up to the 1770 Boston Massacre.

Get more practice spelling with plurals and possessives in this middle school grammar worksheet!

Get students looking ahead and setting goals for themselves in the new year with this resolutions writing worksheet.

Students explore nuance and shades of meaning with this engaging grammar worksheet!

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

Give students practice changing passive voice to active voice with this eighth-grade grammar and writing worksheet! 

Introduce students to the ancient Maya number system with this engaging and interactive social studies worksheet!

Introduce students to the largest empire ever built in South America—the Inca civilization—with this inviting world history worksheet! Y

Help students hone spelling and vocabulary skills with this sweet, pastry-themed grammar worksheet! 

Practice differentiating between commonly confused words with this helpful grammar worksheet!

Help students hone spelling skills with this music-themed worksheet!

Help learners take their understanding of gerunds to the next level as they identify how gerund phrases function within a sentence.

Investigate the concepts of shortage and surplus—as well as the effects they can have on the price of a good—with this helpful economics worksheet!

Practice using parallel structure in writing with this fill-in-the-blank grammar exercise!

Students hone spelling skills and fine-tune their vocabulary knowledge in this engaging grammar worksheet!

Use this multiple-meaning words worksheet to support middle school students as they explore a word with more than one meaning. 

Learn the language of chemistry by reading and writing chemical equations in this middle-grade worksheet! 

Yippee! Get excited to practice using interjections!