3rd - 8th Grade Common Core English Language Arts Resources

Use this resource to assess your students’ ability to determine word meanings from context clues.

Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

Students use sentence-level context clues and their knowledge of vocabulary as they practice using commonly confused word pairs.

If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

Sharpen your students' eyes for proofreading with this quick spelling quiz!

Students will learn fun facts about animals while making inferences about nonfiction text.

Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!

Explore the many ways people around the world embrace winter in this reading comprehension worksheet!

In Reading Comprehension: The Adventure Begins, learners will read an engaging one-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions about the text. 

Story sequencing will allow third graders to improve their reading comprehension by putting the sequence of events in the correct order.

Celebrate Earth Day with an engaging word search activity that reinforces spelling skills!

Practice identifying and correcting misspellings in context with this helpful grammar worksheet!

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about soul music and the history of African-Americans in pop music, all in this Hip-Hop Music worksheet!

The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph. With this worksheet, students will read the paragraphs carefully then circle the statement that best fits the paragraph's main idea.

Write your own unique story with silly nouns, verbs, adjectives, and more! 

Give learners a chance to hone their copyediting skills with this one-page grammar worksheet!

Learners will use context clues to determine the correct homophone for each of eight sentences.

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page worksheet!

Readers practice identifying the main idea in works of nonfiction in this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

Sparks students' creative thinking with this Earth Day-themed reflective writing prompt.

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s classic fantasy novel, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe!