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

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

Get ready, this activity transforms middle school students into experts at understanding and decoding characters in all their favorite stories!

Middle school students will uncover the blueprints of every legendary tale as they learn, identify, and draw symbols for six different plot archetypes!

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

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

Ooh, onomatopoeia! This is a word that mimics a sound: like the "slurp" of spaghetti, a dog's "woof", or comic book sounds like "crash", "bam" and "bang".

Why is the math book so sad? It has too many problems! Help your students bring puns to life by having them create visuals to represent the play on words. Kids will have a blast reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them.

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

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

Collect examples of personification as you read with this helpful worksheet!

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, challenge students to think about the symbolism of the costumes in the novel and get creative!

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Invite your learners to practice identifying hyperboles with this fun 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!

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

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