Practice using a tricky punctuation mark: the colon!

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

Use this eighth-grade grammar and punctuation worksheet to give students practice determining if ellipses are used correctly in quotations pulled from nonfictions texts.

Hmm, are you familiar with interjections? In this worksheet, fifth through eighth graders will use interjections to reflect different feelings.

Unmask the cast of every story with this worksheet for middle schoolers on character archetypes!

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

Introduce learners to three inspiring indigenous women with this four-page reading comprehension worksheet!

Practice using semicolons to clarify complex lists with this middle-grade worksheet!

Complete this middle-grade worksheet about using semicolons and conjunctive adverbs; afterward, you’ll be a grammar master! 

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

Unlock the secret to words like “physics” and “aerial!” Expand your vocabulary with this matching worksheet for common Greek roots.

Dive into the meaning of Latin roots with this vocabulary-building matching activity!

If you need to practice your subordinating conjunctions, check out this helpful worksheet!

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

Use appositives, a type of noun phrase, to combine sentences in this grammar worksheet for middle-grade students!

Show off your relative clause knowledge with this grammar worksheet for seventh and eighth graders!

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

Students have another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Bravo, you’re about to be a master of interjections!

Learn how semicolons can be used to combine sentences in this middle-grade grammar worksheet!

Read an enlightening passage about light pollution and learn ways to bring back the dark night skies in this three-page reading comprehension worksheet!

Give students another opportunity to think critically and practice their writing skills with this engaging writing prompt, featuring a quote by Helen Keller.

Give students even more hands-on editing practice with this grammar worksheet all about parallel structure!

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

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

Help eighth-grade learners strengthen their vocabulary knowledge with this simple one-page worksheet on shades of meaning.

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 12–17 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Support students’ comprehension and analysis of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders with these discussion questions for chapters 9-12.

Practice your grammar, mechanics, and sentence structure with this foundational middle school worksheet!