8th Grade English Language Arts Resources : Page 6

Should schools be limited to a certain number of snow days? Learners write an argumentative response to this winter-themed writing prompt!

In this helpful grammar worksheet, students will review the definition and examples of participles and participial phrases before practicing the skill on their own.

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

Students have another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Read and analyze a classic example of historical fiction with this adapted excerpt from Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper!

Give your seventh-and eighth-grade students practice determining word relationships with this fun analogies worksheet!

Learners practice identifying restrictive and nonrestrictive elements in this middle grades grammar worksheet!

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

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

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.

Use this sixth-grade graphic organizer worksheet to plan an argumentative essay about whether more should be done to solve a problem facing our society.

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

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

Help students hone their spelling and vocabulary skills with this fun summer-themed grammar worksheet.

Discover the differences between gerunds, infinitives, and participles with this one-page grammar worksheet!

Introduce readers to the poem “Impressions” by American poet Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson with this eighth-grade reading comprehension worksheet.

To infinitives and beyond! This worksheet helps students master the skill of identifying infinitives and infinitive phrases in sentences.

With this middle-school revision checklist, students will be guided to review their informational writing with a critical eye in order to improve their writing.

Hone reading comprehension and analysis skills with this worksheet featuring a French fairy tale about a prince, a curse, and the importance of recognizing one's own flaws.

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, summer-themed figurative language maze!

Young writers reflect on a time they worked hard to earn something! Kick off the writing process with this narrative writing graphic organizer.

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

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 1–4 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

Students explore nuance and shades of meaning with this engaging grammar 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.”

Before reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, use this pre-reading activity to get readers thinking about one of the major themes in the novel: stereotypes.

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

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

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

Boost students' spelling skills this fall with this autumn-themed word search puzzle!