8th Grade English Language Arts Resources : Page 6

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.

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

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

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

Invite learners to practice identifying examples of hyperbole with this fun Earth Day maze!

Invite your students to practice their creative storytelling with this fun, spring-themed writing prompt about a peculiar find at the beach following a storm!

When writing an informational essay, start with gathering information with the help of this research graphic organizer template.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–5 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Use this eighth-grade grammar and punctuation worksheet to give students practice determining if ellipses are used correctly in quotations pulled from nonfictions texts.

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!

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

Practice identifying hyperbole with this engaging winter-themed figurative language maze!

Use this graphic organizer to help students build critical thinking skills as they plan an argumentative essay about whether people or organizations should be allowed to do certain things.

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

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.

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

Invite learners to practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about giving middle school students access to recess!

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

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

Prepare students for reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by having them complete this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity!

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

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

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!

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

Students will look closely at roots, prefixes, and suffixes in order to better understand how a group of words can share a common word part.

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

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

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.