8th Grade English Language Arts Worksheets : Page 7

Get students thinking deeply about their personality traits with this engaging reflective writing prompt!

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

Get a taste of verbal irony with this figurative language worksheet in which students study the definitions and examples of sarcasm, exaggeration, and understatement.

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

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this eighth-grade worksheet!

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

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

In this two-page grammar worksheet for eighth grade, students will read sentences written using passive voice and rewrite them using active voice!

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

Students read and analyze an excerpt from E. Nesbit’s 1906 novel, The Railway Children, in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this one-page grammar worksheet to give your eighth graders practice identifying and correcting indicative and subjunctive mood in sentences!

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 a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

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

Motivate readers to read more and track their reading habits with this simple and engaging reading log!

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!

Write a heartfelt letter to someone who has impacted your life with this SEL writing prompt for middle grades!

Use this graphic organizer to guide students' reflections after listening to an episode of a podcast.

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

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

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

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

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

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

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

Practice using parallel structure in writing with this fill-in-the-blank grammar exercise!

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

Students get helpful practice changing passive voice to active voice in the second installment of this eighth-grade grammar and writing worksheet!

Help budding authors practice giving personality to their narrative writing with the exercises in this writing worksheet.

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