5th - 8th Grade English Language Arts Resources : Page 30

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

Teach students to organize their thoughts before they start writing with this prewriting organizer.

Unwrap the history behind a spooky Halloween favorite: mummies! With this reading worksheet, your child will learn all about mummies.

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Help students learn to distinguish between subject, object, and possessive pronouns based on sentence-level context clues with this grammar worksheet!

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

Help students better understand what it means to have a topic with a broad scope versus a narrow scope with this helpful worksheet! 

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool sea turtle facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Students will use content-specific vocabulary in context as they learn about the Revolutionary War.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but they'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Students practice writing original sentences describing food using a list of food-related adjectives in this helpful grammar worksheet!

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

Students will use this fun graphic organizer to help them plan their own podcast to perfection! 

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.

Making compound sentences has never been this fun!

Assess your students’ ability to use context clues to determine the meaning of fifth grade level vocabulary.

Use this worksheet to help middle-school writers correctly use ellipses to indicate a pause in narrative dialogue.

Learn and practice using your conjunctions by finishing the sentences.

In this worksheet, students learn how the Sit-In movement began, and the impact it had on both the region and the country.

In this worksheet, students will review the different parts of speech, or "jobs" that words have, in a sentence.

With this organizer, students will be able to find unfamiliar vocabulary as they read and use context clues to determine meaning.

Introduce readers to the inspiring poem “Thanksgiving” by American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox with this sixth-grade reading comprehension worksheet.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Encourage students to use vivid, descriptive imagery with this creative worksheet!

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.