12 free writing resources for 8th Grade: 12 worksheets. Answers included.
Text types, planning and writing craft. 8th grade extends algebra to expanding brackets and two-step equations, adds percentages increase and decrease, ratio and rates, index laws and congruence.
Students will practice: identifying rhetorical questions, inclusive language, emotive language, evidence and repetition; explaining how a persuasive technique affects a listening audience; analyzing the structure of a persuasive speech; writing an analytical paragraph about persuasive language; using persuasive techniques in an original speech; planning a narrative around a character, a conflict and a turning point; showing a character's feelings through action, dialogue and detail; writing an engaging opening that establishes setting and character.
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Students read an original student speech arguing for a school garden and learn to identify and explain five key persuasive techniques:…
Students learn how writers make readers hold their breath. Using an original suspense passage, they examine techniques such as short…
Students learn to control how certain they sound in formal writing by choosing high, medium or low modality, and to match their certainty…
Students study an original short story opening and learn how authors build character, setting and mood in only a few paragraphs. They…
An 8th grade argumentative writing worksheet on answering the other side. Students analyze a model counterclaim paragraph about requiring…
Students learn to use information from a source without copying it. Working with an original article about bees, they identify the main…
Students learn to plan a narrative before they write it. They study the five stages of a story arc (orientation, complication, rising…
Students read an original poem about a beach at low tide and learn to discuss how a poet creates meaning through imagery, sound and…
An 8th grade argumentative writing worksheet on choosing evidence that holds up. Using a set of practice sources about protected bike…
Students learn how informative writers support each point with evidence and explain it rather than dropping it in. They classify evidence…
Prompts with planning space and success criteria.
A narrative writing prompt for 8th grade: write a story set on the day before something in a character's life changes for good. Students…
An argumentative essay prompt for 8th graders: students take a position on whether middle and high schools should start later in the…
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Text types, planning and writing craft. At 8th Grade, our resources focus on: identifying rhetorical questions, inclusive language, emotive language, evidence and repetition; explaining how a persuasive technique affects a listening audience; analyzing the structure of a persuasive speech; writing an analytical paragraph about persuasive language.
Start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet, then move up a level. Finish with the topic test if there is one.
Yes — every worksheet has an answer sheet. Maths answer sheets show the working; English tasks include model answers or success criteria.
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