6th Grade English Language Arts Worksheets : Page 8

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

Use this short story to help your students practice identifying the root words "son" and "sect" in context.

Get students thinking and writing creatively with this prompt about an unexpected walk down memory lane while stuck inside on a snowy weekend.

Assess your students’ understanding of word parts and how they relate to word meaning.

Learners write an argumentative response with this Earth Day-themed writing prompt about plastic bags. 

Explore summer-themed hink pink riddles with this fun word puzzle worksheet! 

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

Help students learn to distinguish between subject, object, and possessive pronouns based on sentence-level context clues with this grammar worksheet!

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

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

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

Practice determining the meaning of unknown words in context with Read and Find Root Words #3!

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

Build your growth mindset while planning a personal narrative!

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

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions after students read chapters 1–6 of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. 

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

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

Introduce readers to the inspiring poem “Thanksgiving” by American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox with this sixth-grade reading comprehension worksheet.

Students read background information about May as Mental Health Awareness Month and then respond to reflective questions.

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

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

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.

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

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!

Help students better understand what it means to have a topic with a broad scope versus a narrow scope with this helpful worksheet! 

Practice identifying the difference between reflexive and intensive pronouns in this Ancient Egypt-themed worksheet!

Students practice comparing and contrasting two versions of the same piece of text—written and audio/visual—with this graphic organizer!

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for sixth grade!

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.