In this literacy activity, students look for the words that are related to the theme of the sheet in the word search. They also work on spelling skills.

Learners create a small, six page newspaper to prepare for a staff position. In this newspaper creation lesson, students fill out story idea sheets, pick timely stories, assign photos, and arrange for editorial art to be drawn for their...

In this sayings quiz worksheet, students read the English sayings as they are used in each sentence. Students will select the meaning of the saying to complete each of the 10 exercises.

Students explore strategies of identifying answers when given a multiple choice reading comprehension exam. Through a lecture and demonstration, students practice active reading by reading carefully, writing notes, and rereading. They...

In this present continuous instructional activity, students write numbers next to sentences and determine if a verb can be used in the present continuous tense. Students complete 60 problems total.

In this stress learning exercise, students, with a partner, rank fourteen occupations in order of how stressful they can be, explain the underlined words and phrases in seven sentences and start up a conversation with ten key questions.

In this literature activity, students respond to 3 short answer and essay questions about Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.

This printout could be used to introduce the past conditional to your middle schoolers. The top section describes the past conditional and notes examples. There's a short post-assessment included, as well. 

If your learners are having trouble keeping the minor characters straight in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, then this online interactive quiz might be helpful. Use it as a check for understanding and provide your class with...

For this literacy worksheet, students practice looking for the words that are related to the idea that is focused upon in the sheet. The skill of spelling is used and vocabulary increases.

Eighth graders read an article from the Guardian newspaper. They review vocabulary, complete pre-reading matching exercises andread about the secrets of two women who made the grade.

For this present perfect question worksheet, students identify the correct way to write a question using the present perfect tense. They create twenty questions from given words and use have/has, and the correct verb tense, to complete...

In this past perfect question learning exercise, students produce twenty fill in the blank past present questions using the subject and verb.

On this past simple form negative worksheets, students design twenty different sentences, from a given list of words, using the past simple form.

In this past simple verbs worksheet, students create twenty different yes or no questions, using given words, in the simple past form.

In this future perfect practice instructional activity, students complete ten fill in the blank sentences to construct sentences in the future perfect tense.

For this adjectives worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions where they fill in the blanks to sentences with adjectives ending in ing or ed. Students complete 20 sentences.

Learners use runaway slave advertisements to discover how the language varies from the 18th to 21st century. Using primary source documents, they research the brutality of slavery and the desire of those in slavery to be free. They...

In this punctuation instructional activity, students complete a 10 question multiple choice on-line interactive exercise about the correct use of punctuation in sentences. The sentences have a college sports theme.

In this online interactive grammar worksheet, students answer 10 multiple choice questions regarding fragments and types of sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

In this conjunctions worksheet, pupils choose the best conjunction out of three that fits each of ten sentences to make each one grammatically correct.

In this verb tenses practice worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 15 sentences with the correct form of the verb given in parentheses and use an appropriate form of the verbs in parentheses to complete a narrative paragraphs and ...

In this paragraph correction worksheet, students read a 7 line passage. Then students respond to 8 multiple choice questions regarding grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors.