Citing text examples is the focus of this poetry worksheet of Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee?”
How to Write a Thesis Statement
This activity helps students develop a strong thesis statement for their essays by providing practice writing sample statements.
How to Write an Introduction: Bridge Building Activity
This activity is designed to help students learn about writing introductions through a fun bridge building activity to join the lead noun card and thesis statement card.
How to Write an Introduction: Different Leads
This is a fun, creative activity where students explore ways to include factoids, stories, metaphors and more to create “hooks”. A great activity to help students develop strong introductions.
How to Write an Introduction: Lead Types
Creating an attention-grabbing lead isn’t always easy but it’s very rewarding to students when they are able to create engaging introductions. This activity provides great practice to build better introductions!
How to Write an Introduction: Lead, Bridge, and Thesis
Let’s combine it all! This activity helps students use thesis statements, bridges and leads to write strong essay introductions.
How to Write an Introduction: Write a Complete Introduction
This activity helps students bring together what they’ve learned to write a complete introduction, including the lead, bridge, and thesis statement.
Identify the Complement
In this activity, students will read sentences that have both subject complements and object complements. They’ll identify which is which.
Idioms and Adages for Christmas
Help your students better understand idioms and adages with this Christmas Phrases Activity. Students will be asked to rewrite each sentence in his/her own words without using the idiom or adage.
Inference in Literature: The Wizard of Oz
“The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” will help your student learn inference.
Inference Practice 2: Where Am I?
Here’s some inference practice for your middle school student.
Informal and Formal Writing
Here’s a worksheet on identifying and correcting informal language in sentences.
Informal or Formal?
This worksheet asks your student to determine if a sentence is written in a formal or informal style.
Irish Proverbs Worksheet Activity
This activity lists some Irish proverbs, and your students will explain what they think each one means.
Irony in Poetry
Two poetry passages from classic literature are the focus of this irony worksheet.
Is It an Independent Clause or a Dependent Clause?
Time to identify the clause: independent or dependent?
Limited Resources
This reading comprehension worksheet asks your student to read and analyze conservation techniques for natural resources.
Literature About Chicago: Prose vs. Poetry
It’s prose vs. poetry in this worksheet on literature about Chicago.
Look Around! Meaning in Context
It’s all about spotting the context clues in this worksheet!
Main Idea Graphic Organizer
Staying organized can be difficult, especially when you are trying to keep your writing and ideas well organized. With this printable Main Idea Graphic Organizer, students can keep their thoughts and ideas organized and separated based on their order of importance.