8th Grade English Language Arts Resources : Page 9

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

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 6–11 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Students will use this fun graphic organizer to help them plan their own podcast to perfection! 

Practice argumentative writing with this Earth Day-themed prompt about tourism's impact on the environment. 

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 5–8 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

Get students thinking and writing creatively with this prompt about a suspicious snowball that zips by while on a walk down the snowy city sidewalk!

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, students will practice their narrative writing techniques as they draft a story about their favorite person

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!

Learners practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about summer reading requirements!

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

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

Give students even more hands-on editing practice with this grammar worksheet all about parallel structure!

Support students’ comprehension and analysis of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders with these discussion questions for chapters 9-12.

Use this vocabulary-building worksheet to help middle school students expand their knowledge of academic words in an authentic and multi-faceted way.

Encourage word sense, connotation, and wordplay with this creative worksheet where students personify a vocabulary word!

Invite students to inventory their vocabulary knowledge with this adaptable graphic organizer!

Support budding authors in developing their informational writing voice with this writing worksheet.

This standards-based Narrative Writing Rubric for 8th grade is the perfect tool to assess your students’ narrative writing skills!

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

Give students more hands-on editing practice with this grammar worksheet all about parallel structure!

Invite your learners to practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze! 

Before reading Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk to Water, use these pre-reading prompts to engage students in a discussion about key story elements.

Assess your students’ argument writing skills with a standards-based rubric for eighth grade.

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

Are kids today spending enough time outdoors?  Make your case in this argument writing prompt worksheet and rubric for middle grades!

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.

Get students thinking, reflecting, and writing with this middle school narrative writing prompt and rubric!

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.