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Students read a two-page adaptation of the classic short story “The Open Window” by Saki and answer key reading comprehension questions!

In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners compare and contrast two poems, focusing on structure, tone, and literary devices used in each.

Students compare and contrast two fables in this eighth-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Students read and analyze an excerpt from E. Nesbit’s 1906 novel, The Railway Children, in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

This seventh-grade worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor.

Give students a chance to engage with a classic science fiction story while practicing crucial reading comprehension skills!

Learners will use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of common allusions.

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this eighth-grade worksheet!

Learners use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of more common allusions.

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

Get a taste of verbal irony with this figurative language worksheet in which students study the definitions and examples of sarcasm, exaggeration, and understatement.