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!

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

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

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

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

Practice identifying similes like a seasoned expert with this fun, spring-themed maze!

Let your figurative language skills blossom with this middle-grade springtime metaphor maze! 

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

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

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

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!

Learn onomatopoeia while you experience an exciting video game quest!

Bring opposites together to form oxymorons in this worksheet on figurative language!

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

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

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

Write an eloquent, nature-inspired personification poem with this guided worksheet for seventh graders!

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

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

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.