High schoolers explore the topic of underage drinking. They find a focus and write a news feature/analysis that reports on what the community is doing to prevent underage drinking and some assessment of the extent of the problem.

Read the descriptive paragraph (included) with your middle schoolers, and have them study the stylistic elements included. They'll look for vivid verbs, alliteration, assonance, similes, and personification. Before writers craft their...

The power in this worksheet is in the detailed answer sheet that explains precisely why one answer is the best response to the question. There are explanations that serve as models for how to approach sentence completion exercises. The...

Practice the basics of pronoun-antecedent agreement by assigning this exercise. Class members identify both the pronoun and the antecedents in ten sentences.

Make sure those pronouns and antecedents match up! For this exercise, learners complete eight sentences by selecting the correct pronouns.

Here's a colorful worksheet that asks kids to write a word, opposite in meaning, to the word pictured. The template includes picture clues.

Words are kind of like a train, with affixes as the added cars. Practice prefixes, suffixes, and root words with these worksheets. Learners add words on to the beginning and end of words, practice with some roots, and use the words in...

Create poetry with a worksheet based on alliterative phrases. After reviewing ten nouns, kids add an adjective to each based on the first letter of the noun. They then rewrite five sentences to involve more alliteration.

Practice alliteration with a fun game! Kids match names to a best friend's name, and add something they both like. 

Bells, bells, bells abound in a worksheet designed for Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem "The Bells." Middle schoolers are asked to identify the various poetic devices Poe employs.

How can you tell if a sentence has alliteration? Use a short learning exercise to help kids identify examples of alliteration, complete sentences to create alliteration, and use nouns to write their own alliterative sentences.

Were you in an accident? How did it happen? Pupils practice asking and answering questions with a language arts slideshow presentation. As they work on describing past events to explain a current condition, individuals take a look...

'Tis the season to be joyful, merry, beautiful, and red! Test young learners' knowledge of parts of speech with a festive coloring worksheet. As they identify which words are nouns and which words are adjectives, they color each part of...

Halloween is a great time to review some dark, spooky, and fun describing words! A holiday scene containing a black cat, grinning jack-o-lantern, and foggy sky comes forth when class members color the sections with adjectives yellow.

How often do Peter and Sally go out dancing at night? How often do my cousin and I get in trouble at school? Help kids with adverbs of frequency with a straightforward grammar worksheet. They use the adverb in parentheses to rewrite the...

Knowing how to properly use the colon and the semi-colon is a handy skill to have. Most grown ups don't know how to properly use them! This presentation does an excellent job of showing learners how to properly use the semi-colon. There...

Appositives, those tricky little words and phrases that provide more information about nouns, are the subject of a series of worksheets linked to this resource.

Provide scholars with an opportunity to practice summarizing text with a two-page learning exercise. Learners read poems, share stories with their peers, and summarize their new-found-knowledge. 

The ABC book format is used to organize information found in a Holocaust research project. Class members use the library and/or online resources to collect information and organize their findings under key terms, places, or names. Before...

Learners create a historical fiction timeline. They review the literature through the perspective of history (writing prompts provided). Students create a book cover illustration to appear with the book review in the appropriate spot on...

Stressed? Stressed young scholars? Check out a lesson that includes a checklist of causes of stress, suggestions for ways to deal with stress, and a role-play activity. Definitely worth a look.

In this wall reading worksheet, students read ten paragraphs and answer three questions for each paragraph in how the information relates to themselves. Students then answer twenty eight multiple choice questions about the reading.

Fun awaits both you and your class as you embark on a musical activity. After discussing different rhythmic meters they choose a poem to set to music. The poem must rhyme and be set to a melody in the key of C Major. Because the activity...

Primary readers read books in order to practice word recognition, rhyming, and play reading games. They will "read" simple books to reinforce basic reading skills in order to create a foundation. Readers are available to print out along...