Middle School English Language Arts Resources : Page 12

Assess your students’ understanding of word parts and how they relate to word meaning.

Clarify the meaning of your sentences by learning to identify and avoid misplaced and dangling modifiers with this seventh-grade worksheet!

Learners will practice placing either one or two dashes, as directed, in given sentences to indicate a pause or break as appropriate.

Give students extra practice differentiating between an independent clause and a dependent clause with this seventh-grade grammar worksheet!

Learners write an argumentative response with this Earth Day-themed writing prompt about plastic bags. 

In this eighth-grade grammar worksheet, learners will read sentences and determine whether the underlined section is written in active or passive voice.

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

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

Help students learn to distinguish between subject, object, and possessive pronouns based on sentence-level context clues with this grammar worksheet!

Invite your students to practice their creative storytelling with this fun, spring-themed writing prompt about a harrowing experience at a baseball game!

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

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

Students practice expressing ideas precisely and concisely by revising sentences to remove vague and redundant words or phrases.

Practice determining the meaning of unknown words in context with Read and Find Root Words #3!

Learners offer advice to a younger version of themselves in this engaging reflective writing activity.

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

Use this standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 7th grade to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions after students read chapters 1–6 of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. 

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

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

Introduce readers to the inspiring poem “Thanksgiving” by American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox with this sixth-grade reading comprehension worksheet.

Students read background information about May as Mental Health Awareness Month and then respond to reflective questions.

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

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