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

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

Middle school students will become masters at decoding characters in their favorite stories after they complete this activity!

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

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

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

Practice using personification with this autumnal worksheet created for fifth through eighth graders!

Collect examples of personification as you read with this helpful worksheet!

Don’t let allusions be your white whale; master them with the help of this middle school worksheet!

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

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

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

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

Middle school students will uncover the blueprints of every legendary tale as they learn, identify, and draw symbols for six different plot archetypes!

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

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

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

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

Practice identifying hyperbole with this engaging winter-themed figurative language maze!

Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.

Invite learners to practice identifying examples of hyperbole with this fun Earth Day maze!

Celebrate our planet with this Earth Day-themed metaphors maze!

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s classic fantasy novel, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe!

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

Don’t let allusions be your Achilles’ heel—practice interpreting and writing them with this seventh- and eighth-grade worksheet!

Introduce readers to the poem “I like to see it lap the Miles” by beloved American poet Emily Dickinson.