Middle School English Language Arts Resources : Page 8

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

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

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

Students compare and contrast two fables in this eighth-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

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

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

Hone spelling skills with this word search puzzle featuring a unique collection of commonly misspelled words!

In this worksheet, learners come to better understand the different kinds of narratives, and how they are similar and different, by creating a map of narrative genres.

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

Have middle school students use these writing prompts as a jumping off point as they set out to write an informational essay.

Practice using the correct pronoun, I or me, in compound subjects and objects with this helpful grammar worksheet!

Identify restrictive and nonrestrictive elements and add commas as needed in this essential grammar worksheet!

Give students practice identifying prepositional phrases in context with this seventh grade grammar worksheet!

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

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

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

Encourage students to make connections as they learn new words with this creative vocabulary quilt activity!

Should schools be limited to a certain number of snow days? Learners write an argumentative response to this winter-themed writing prompt!

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

Who or whom? Practice using relative pronouns in the context of written sentences with this one-page grammar worksheet!

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

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

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

Students practice identifying the pronoun errors in a variety of sentences and then writing in the correct pronoun to best complete each sentence.

Assess your students’ narrative writing skills with this standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 6th grade.

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

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

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!