4th - 8th Grade English Language Arts Resources : Page 7

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of jazz music, and the history of African-Americans in pop music.

Students read a two-page adaptation of "The Gift of the Magi" and dig deep into the figurative language and literary devices of this classic story!

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun figurative language worksheet.

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

Assess your students’ end-of-year knowledge of grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure.

Students practice using sentence-level context clues and word relationships to determine the meaning of above-level vocabulary words.

Inspire middle-grade learners with this biography of Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space!

Use this resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about a major historical event. Students will read a passage about the Tsunami of 2004 and determine the author’s viewpoint as they establish the

In this language and vocabulary worksheet, learners will read two short passages and choose the transition words that best connect the ideas and sentences.

Differentiating between facts and opinions is a key fourth grade skill to master and is helpful in identifying the author’s purpose in a text. Use this activity to give your students extra practice differentiating between these two kinds of sentence

Introduce students to the classic poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

Get students thinking deeply with this spring-themed writing prompt about new beginnings!

Learners identify and define word parts in this fifth- and sixth-grade vocabulary worksheet.

Children learn about Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the United States, in this Finding the Main Idea worksheet.

Use this two-page graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast informational narratives from two different genres.

Children learn about the Moon, then practice finding and writing the main idea, in this literacy worksheet.

Use this reference sheet to encourage students to use a variety of transition words in their writing to signal the different relationships between ideas.

Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

Become a prefix superhero with this fun worksheet! Children will flex their power to create new words by combining prefixes with words they already know using a handy prefix word bank with definitions.

This analogies worksheet helps children compare two unlike things. Try our analogies worksheet with your third grader to strengthen reading and writing skills.

Students will read passages and compare the traits of two characters.

Explore the physics at play in roller coasters with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.