8th Grade English Language Arts Worksheets : Page 9

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!

Have a laugh (or a groan) with this fun figurative language worksheet all about puns!

Encourage critical thinking with this discussion guide as students read the next set of Anne’s diary entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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

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

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

Learners will practice placing either one or two dashes, as directed, in given sentences to indicate a pause or break as appropriate.

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Valentine's Day-themed similes!

Give your students a chance to voice their opinion and practice their writing skills with this fun “would you rather” writing prompt!

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

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a literary text with this middle school writing worksheet.

Use this fun, winter-themed writing worksheet to help students learn the difference between formal and informal writing.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

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

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

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

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

After reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver, watch the movie adaptation in order to compare the written and visual forms of the story!

Help young writers build and strengthen their vocabulary and language skills with this great grammar worksheet!

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

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 a chance to voice their opinion and practice their writing skills with this fun “would you rather” writing prompt.

Encourage students to make connections as they learn new words with this creative vocabulary quilt activity!

Build background knowledge about social classes in the early 1900s as students prepare to read A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

Get ready to hunker down this season with these fun winter-themed analogies!

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.

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

Help students build their vocabulary and language skills with this helpful grammar worksheet! 

Children revisit Bram Stoker's classic Dracula novel from the perspective of two other characters in this creative writing exercise.

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 12–17 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver.