Middle School Common Core English Language Arts Worksheets

Students use sentence-level context clues and their knowledge of vocabulary as they practice using commonly confused word pairs.

Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!

Explore the many ways people around the world embrace winter in this reading comprehension worksheet!

In Reading Comprehension: The Adventure Begins, learners will read an engaging one-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions about the text. 

Celebrate Earth Day with an engaging word search activity that reinforces spelling skills!

Practice identifying and correcting misspellings in context with this helpful grammar worksheet!

Give learners a chance to hone their copyediting skills with this one-page grammar worksheet!

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page worksheet!

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

Explore different types of sentences with this helpful grammar worksheet!

Learn all about the fascinating field of food science in this four-page informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Give your students a chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this engaging picture prompt! 

Read an informational passage about George Washington Carver to learn about his life and achievements!

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this figurative language maze!

In this worksheet, students will read about Anne Frank, then complete a chart identifying cause and effect.

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

Students read all about seaweed and answer standards-based comprehension questions in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Introduce readers to the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Students read a two-page adaptation of "The Gift of the Magi" and dig deep into the figurative language and literary devices of this classic story!

Help students hone their language and vocabulary skills with this worksheet in which learners use sentence-level context clues to write the word that correctly completes each sentence.

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades! 

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

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

In this vocabulary-building worksheet, students will read several short paragraphs and identify and match familiar words with their lesser known synonyms.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners compare and contrast two poems, focusing on structure, tone, and literary devices used in each.

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

Introduce readers to the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet! 

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

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

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