7th and 8th Grade English Language Arts Resources : Page 9

Commas and dashes are both used to indicate pauses or breaks, but what’s the difference? Help your learners find out with this engaging one-page worksheet!

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

Identifying gerunds and gerund phrases is smooth sailing with this simple, one-page worksheet for seventh- and eighth-grade students!

Read a one-page adaptation of the Japanese myth, “The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child” and answer a variety of eighth-grade comprehension questions!

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Give students extra practice naming the function of clauses in this seventh-grade grammar worksheet!

Guide student research about women’s suffrage around the world with this two-page research graphic organizer!

Use this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women to help your middle schooler analyze plot development!

Expand your reader’s knowledge of world folklore with this unique and engaging reading comprehension worksheet! 

Get students thinking and writing creatively with this prompt about an unexpected walk down memory lane while stuck inside on a snowy weekend.

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 1–4 of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. 

Clarify the meaning of your sentences by learning to identify and avoid misplaced and dangling modifiers with this seventh-grade worksheet!

Learners will practice placing either one or two dashes, as directed, in given sentences to indicate a pause or break as appropriate.

Give students extra practice differentiating between an independent clause and a dependent clause with this seventh-grade grammar worksheet!

Learners write an argumentative response with this Earth Day-themed writing prompt about plastic bags. 

In this eighth-grade grammar worksheet, learners will read sentences and determine whether the underlined section is written in active or passive voice.

Explore summer-themed hink pink riddles with this fun word puzzle worksheet! 

Invite your students to practice their creative storytelling with this fun, spring-themed writing prompt about a harrowing experience at a baseball game!

This seventh-grade worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

Students practice expressing ideas precisely and concisely by revising sentences to remove vague and redundant words or phrases.

Learners offer advice to a younger version of themselves in this engaging reflective writing activity.

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

Use this standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 7th grade to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

Use this worksheet with your students to help them build their vocabulary and language skills.

Use this worksheet with your students to help them build their vocabulary and language skills.