This standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 8th grade is the perfect tool to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

Children will create their own reference guide to prefixes in this comprehensive, three-page grammar worksheet.

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

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

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades! 

In the third installment of this fun vocabulary-building worksheet, students will match words to their opposites, or antonyms!

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into larger-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

This eighth-grade grammar worksheet will give students practice using commas with interjections, appositives, direct addresses, and introductory phrases or clauses.

Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

This worksheet encourages students to work together to think of as many examples of common root words as they can.

Assess your students’ argument writing skills with a standards-based rubric for eighth grade.

This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of their own.

Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!

Get learners' creative juices flowing with this fun leap year-inspired writing prompt!

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point.

Keep this study aid handy during homework time, or keep a copy in the back of your binder for classroom reference.

Use this grammar handout to help learners remember the difference between the words there, their, and they're!

In this nonfiction biography, learn how Nikola Tesla invented key technologies that are still used today.

Help plan and research a biography with this helpful graphic organizer!

Students hone reading comprehension and analysis skills with this adapted excerpt from the first chapter of The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the major themes and events from The Giver.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 5–9 of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins! 

Young historians will love learning facts about the famous Viking explorer Leif Ericson while practicing their reading comprehension and writing skills.

Use this graphic organizer to help students build critical thinking skills as they plan an argumentative essay about whether people or organizations should be allowed to do certain things.

Children learn about the women's suffrage movement in the U.S., including key players and events, and how it contributed to the eventual passing of the 19th Amendment.

After completing S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, allow students to connect to the theme of identity with this engaging reflection activity!