After reading the first few chapters of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with this two-page novel study guide!

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son.”

Review common vocabulary words with this fun and creative color-by-number worksheet!

After dinner, do you eat desert or dessert? Learn to differentiate between commonly confused words in this middle-grade worksheet!

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

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

Embrace the crisp autumn air as you complete this misplaced modifier worksheet for seventh and eighth graders!

Explore different biomes on your quest to interpret literary symbols!

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

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

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

Encourage students to make connections as they learn new vocabulary with this Vocabulary Connections Map.