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 Direct Object Worksheet Activity
You’ll like this worksheet on compound direct objects!
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!
Dot, Dot, Dot: The Ellipsis
Here’s some practice on using an ellipsis.
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: Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Bells”
This Poe poem has a variety of different figures of speech to analyze.
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: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Students read a passage from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and write the main idea and 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.