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: “Pun” In The Blanks 1
The puns are intended in this figurative language worksheet!
Figurative Language: “Pun” In The Blanks 2
The puns are intended in this figurative language worksheet!
Figurative Language: Double The Sound, Double The Pun
The puns are intended in this figurative language 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 “Double Trouble”
The puns are intended in this figurative language worksheet!
Figurative Language: Pun Fun
The puns are intended in this figurative language worksheet!