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English - Middle Grades

• American Literature
• Characterization
• Grammar
• Literary Analysis
• Literary Criticism
• Literary Devices
• Literary Themes
• Narrative
• Plays and Theater
• Point of View
• Prose and Poetry
• Punctuation and Capitalization
• Reading Comprehension
• Research Skills - Sources and Documentation
• Sentence Structure
• Setting
• Structural Elements of Plot
• Theme
• Vocabulary
• World Literature

Literary Devices

Fractured Fairy Tales and Fables Explores various fairy tales. Activity guides are provided. Students are encouraged to write their own fractured fairy tale and publish it.. Scholastic

Gifts of Story Excellent source for developing language and communication through listening, speaking, viewing, and presenting. Aaron Shephard's Readers Theater

List and Examples of Poetic Devices A list and examples of different poetic devices Storytrail.com

An Eye on Idioms Students can explore and experiment with idioms through this interactive tool. The student is given a picture prompt and fill-in-the-blank sentence to assist in understanding an idiom, and allowed to write a comment about the metaphoical meaning before printing their responses. ReadWriteThink

Literary terms definitions of lit terms Literary Terms

Figurative Language Online Practice Online practice exercises for figurative language such as similes, metaphors, personification, idioms, alliteration, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, and more Sturgeon, MO K-12 Figurative Language Sites

A Glossary of Literary Terms a glossary Virtual Salt