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Narrative Essay Worksheets & Writing Assignments

Don’t Tell, Show Activity: Beginning writers are more likely to tell readers how a character is feeling, rather than showing them. This writing worksheet gives students practice with showing and not telling. In this activity students take twenty telling statements and turn them into showing statements. Rather than just telling how a character feels, students […]

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Preposition Worksheets and Activities

Prepositions are words that express locations in time and space. They indicate relationships between nouns and other words. Learning prepositions is cornerstone to understanding the English language. Since prepositions are used quite frequently, it is worth taking the time to learn them. It’s often said that one shouldn’t end one’s sentences with a preposition. Most […]

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Idiom Worksheets and Tests

Students are often required to identify idioms on state tests, but what are idioms? It’s hard to define them. This is because idioms are made from other figurative language techniques (like simile, metaphor, or hyperbole).   Idioms Figurative expressions that are very common Idioms are different from other figurative language instances because people use idioms […]

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Personification Worksheets

Personification is a figurative language technique. Personfication is when a speaker gives an object or idea human characteristics, abilities, or qualities. This page contains worksheets and resources on personification. Use these to give students practice with identifying personification. An Example of Personification The frost paints the pines in the winter time. In this example the […]

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Poetic Devices Worksheets & Activities

Poetic devices are techniques that listeners can hear. They are different from figurative language techniques. Poets use both, but poetic devices affect how the poem sounds. When trying to identify poetic devices, you should read the lines out-loud. It may be easier to pick up these techniques with your ears than with your eyes. Here […]

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Poetic Devices

Poetic devices are literary techniques that deal with the sounds of language. Poetic devices are NOT just used by poets (although we ALL are poets). They are used by good writers everywhere. They are used by novelists, journalists, and advertisers as well as poets. Poetic devices are pleasing to hear. The best writers and speakers […]

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Ereading Worksheets Online Reading Activities

Are you looking for online reading activities?  How about interactive practice activities targeting specific reading skills? At ereadingworksheets.com you can complete ereading worksheets: online reading skill quizzes about such subjects as identifying figurative language, recognizing patterns of organization or text structure, comprehending texts, determining the author’s purpose, and more. Valuable practice with reading skills will […]

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All Reading Worksheets

I spent much of my time as an educator creating materials to effectively target essential reading skills. I spent many more years compiling and posting these materials to this website. Here is a list of all the worksheet pages on this website. These materials are aligned to Common Core State Standards when possible, and I […]

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Figurative Language Activities

Students are often required to identify figurative language techniques on standardized tests. Here are a series of figurative language activities to help students better understand and more reliably identify figurative language techniques. Also, you may be interested in these online figurative language practice tests.   Common Core State Standards Related to Figurative Language Anchor Standards […]

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Figurative Language Worksheets

Common Core State Standards demand that students identify figurative language techniques. This means that your standardized test is likely to question figurative language knowledge. Students can prepare for this through repeated exposure to figurative language. You can do this by studying figurative language poems, activities, or the worksheets on this page. These worksheets will give […]

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