Classic Literature: If

Help your students improve their reading skills with this activity set about Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If”.

Commonly confused Words: What’s Correct?

Here’s some practice on words that are commonly confused. Students will circle the correct word, practicing the correct usage for word pairs like imaginary and imaginative, principal and principle and more.

Complex Direct Object Worksheet

Your student will practice working with complex direct objects in this worksheet.

Compound Indirect Object Worksheet

In this worksheet your student will identify the compound indirect objects.

Discuss the Verbal Irony

Time to discuss verbal irony in three situations!

Draw a Conclusion: Visual Details

Your student will use visual clues to make inferences about a group of pictures in this worksheet.

Edgar Allan Poe and the Fall of the House of Usher

In this activity, students read a passage from Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and write what they think the underlined words mean.

Edgar Allan Poe: The Oval Portrait

In this activity, students read a passage from Edgar Allan Poe’s 1842 short story “The Oval Portrait” and answer questions.

Editing and Proofing a Paragraph

Your students will further their editing and proofing skills by correcting a paragraph in this printable classroom worksheet.

Elegy for Lincoln: Walt Whitman’s Poem

In this activity, students read a “O Captain! My Captain!” about Abraham Lincoln and his death. Students then answer questions about the poem.

Evaluating Text: My Life

In this worksheet, your student will assess a premise in Helen Keller’s autobiography, My Life.

Figurative Language Activity for Halloween

Help your students better understand figurative language with this classroom activity on similes and idioms. Students will practice interpreting different phrases, such as ‘pale as a ghost’ and ‘made my blood run cold’, with this printable worksheet.

Figurative Language: Pun Fun

The puns are intended in this figurative language worksheet!

Find the Main Idea: Little Women

Students read a passage from Louisa May Alcott’s book, Little Women, and write the main idea and two supporting ideas.

Find the Main Idea: Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Students write the main idea and up to 5 supporting ideas after reading a short passage from the book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain.

Find the Object Complement

In this printable activity, your middle school student will write 8 sentences using subject complements.