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"The Black Cauldron," by Lloyd Alexander
Twenty multiple choice questions assess readers' understanding of "The Black Cauldron." This is an online quiz.
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Writing The Boxcar Children
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students read a 1-page article titled "Writing the Boxcar Children." Students then respond to 7 multiple choice questions regarding the article. Students may submit their...
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Perpendicular Lines
In this perpendicular lines practice worksheet, young scholars find and list examples of perpendicular lines at home, at school, and outside.
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Writing Concise Sentences
Use this online English skills worksheet on a computer lab day in your language arts class. Young writers respond to twelve questions that require them to write more concise sentences. They may check suggested answers.
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Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers - Exercise 2
Getting tired of seeing dangling or misplaced modifiers in your students' writing? Use this grammar activity to reinforce the importance of careful reading and editing. Young writers find the sentence that has no misplaced or dangling...
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Changing Passive to Active
Getting tired of reading student papers that are written in the passive voice? Help to make your young writers aware of their writing voice in this active and passive voice worksheet. They convert ten passive voice sentences to active...
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Passive Voice
Are you looking for a warm-up activity or quiz about passive and active voice? Use this passive voice practice worksheet, in which students rewrite the ten active voice sentences to passive voice sentences. The activity would be a good...
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Modals: Passive Voice
Bring this modals practice worksheet to your grammar unit. Middle schoolers respond to twenty-six short answer and fill in the blanks questions that require them to use the appropriate passive voice verbs. This activity is a good way to...
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Toilet Paper
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a 4-paragraph article titled "Toilet Paper" and respond to 8 multiple choice questions and 7 short answer questions.
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Reciprocal Teaching Strategies Worksheet
In this pre-reading activity worksheet, students respond to 3 questions that require them to list main ideas, generate questions, and clarify unclear items prior to reading a selection.
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Writing: Revision
Looking for a activity on editing and revising punctuation? In this writing skills activity, young writers read a writing sample and identify the punctuation, spelling, and grammatical errors in the selection.
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Literature-based Skill Building: Holes by Louis Sachar
An online activity bases on chapters 45-50 from the Louis Sachar favorite, Holes. Fifth and sixth graders respond to 12 short answer questions regarding each chapter.
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Test Your Writing Skills
In this letter writing skills worksheet, middle schoolers examine 15 phrases from letters and determine whether each phrase is from a formal or informal letter. Good, solid writing practice!
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David Archuleta
With a spare 10 minutes older students can enjoy answering trivia. This quiz explores the life and work of musician, David Archuleta. This could be paired with a engaging challenge to do internet research in order to answer all the...
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Proper Adjectives
The identification of proper adjectives is the focus of this language arts worksheet. Students identify proper adjectives in four phrases, then place a proper adjective of their choice in three other sentences.
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The Canadian Campaign of the War of 1812
An article on The Canadian Campaign of the War of 1812 awaits your students. After reading the article, students answer ten true/false questions about the campaign. Answers appear at the end.
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President George Walker Bush
A short article on President George W. Bush awaits your students. After reading the article, students answer six multiple choice questions about Bush and his presidency. Answers appear at the end.
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Adjectives and Adverbs
Adjectives and Adverbs are the focus of this Standardized Test-type of activity. Learners consider ten sentences, and make changes, if necessary, to the underlined portions of each sentence. This activity would provide excellent practice...
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Pronoun Reference
A standardized test-type of worksheet awaits your students. They consider ten sentences which each have portions underlined. Learners look at the underlined portions, and decide if any changes need to be made. If no changes are...
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Taxonomy Concept Map
Reinforce learners' knowledge of scientific taxonomy with a helpful concept map worksheet. Using a word bank, young biologists fill in the blanks to complete the description of organism classification.
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Thunder and Lightning
For this earth science worksheet, students read and study about the formation of lightning and thunder using online resources. They complete 8 short answer questions that follow.
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Rainforests of the Sea
In this ecology worksheet, students read and study about coral reefs using online resources to complete 8 short answer questions. They watch a video related to the topic.
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Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics
In this earth science activity, students read and study about divergent and convergent boundaries, tectonic plates and volcanoes to complete 1 data chart 7 short answer questions.
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Simple Plants Concept Map
In this plant science learning exercise, students complete a concept map on the classification of plants. They fill in 9 blanks with the correct words from the list.