6 free english resources for Year 8, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
English develops reading, writing, spelling and grammar together. Strong readers write better, and students who understand sentence structure read with more understanding. Our English resources separate those strands so you can target the one that needs work, while reading passages, writing prompts and grammar activities all reinforce one another.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Students build the vocabulary that assessment questions and essays rely on: analyse, evaluate, justify, infer, significant, hypothesis and…
Students learn that in the active voice the subject does the action (the council approved the plan) while in the passive the subject…
A focused review of the two punctuation marks that cause the most errors in Year 8 writing. Students revise apostrophes for contraction…
Students sort out the word pairs and triples that spell-checkers miss and markers notice: affect/effect, their/there/they're, your/you're,…
A passage with questions.
Two friends argue over a dangerous shortcut through a stormwater drain as a summer storm breaks. Students examine how tension is built…
A newspaper-style report about a small country town whose residents volunteer to keep their library open after council funding is cut.…
Writing prompts include a model opening and clear success criteria rather than a single 'correct' answer, so parents and teachers can give useful feedback.
Yes. All passages are written by Success Tutoring and checked for age-appropriate vocabulary and sentence length.
Resources tagged NAPLAN practise the same text types and skills NAPLAN assesses. They are NAPLAN-style and not official test papers.