8th Grade English Language Arts Resources : Page 3

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

Invite learners to research Easter and record their findings using this spring-inspired research template!

Get middle schoolers talking about the nuance and connotation of words and how they affect the meaning of a sentence with this helpful 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.

Learn about what makes certain elements cooler than others in this chemistry-based informational reading passage! 

Help students hone their argument writing skills with this writing worksheet and graphic organizer.

Compare and contrast two scenes from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Give students practice using who and whom correctly in the context of written sentences with this helpful grammar worksheet!

Practice using a tricky punctuation mark: the colon!

Help students plan their informational writing with this graphic organizer!

Review common vocabulary words with this fun and creative color-by-number worksheet!

Prepare students for reading Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by building background knowledge about the rise of Hitler in Germany after World War I.

Practice analyzing characters with this worksheet that features an excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. 

Get more practice spelling with plurals and possessives in this middle school grammar worksheet!

Introduce learners to the American advocate Dorothea Dix with this three-page informational reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Help students organize their ideas and structure their paragraph responses with this PEEL graphic organizer!

Naming the function of clauses is as easy as pie in this seventh-grade grammar worksheet!

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

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

Learners will use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of common allusions.

With an emphasis on grammar, mechanics, and style, this checklist is a great way to help writers hone their editing skills and gain familiarity with the writing process.

Give your learners fun spelling and problem-solving practice with this engaging anagram puzzles worksheet!

In this sixth-grade worksheet, students hone their narrative writing skills by practicing identifying and removing irrelevant details to strengthen a story.

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Unravel a classic story from Greek mythology with this two-page reading comprehension worksheet for seventh and eighth-grade learners!

Invite learners to practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about spring break homework requirements!

Use this grammar worksheet to give students practice differentiating between active and passive voice by having them identify the type of voice used in various sentences.

Students gain valuable practice understanding how words are related while building their vocabulary with this analogy worksheet.