5th - 8th Grade Common Core English Language Arts Worksheets

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.

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. 

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!

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!

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!

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

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!

Explore different types of sentences with this helpful grammar worksheet!

Learn all about the fascinating field of food science in this four-page informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Give your students a chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this engaging picture prompt! 

Read an informational passage about George Washington Carver to learn about his life and achievements!

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this figurative language maze!

In this worksheet, students will read about Anne Frank, then complete a chart identifying cause and effect.

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

Students read all about seaweed and answer standards-based comprehension questions in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Introduce readers to the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

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!

Help students hone their language and vocabulary skills with this worksheet in which learners use sentence-level context clues to write the word that correctly completes each sentence.

Children are introduced to Tennyson the Turtle, a reptile who likes to use metaphors and similes, in this appealing worksheet!

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

Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!