7 free reading resources for 8th Grade, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
Reading comprehension is about more than finding the answer in the text. Students need to read literally (what does it say?), inferentially (what does it mean?) and evaluatively (what do I think, and why?). Each passage here comes with questions at all three levels and model answers for the open ones.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Students build the vocabulary that assessment questions and essays rely on: analyze, evaluate, justify, infer, significant, hypothesis and…
Students learn that synonyms are rarely exact matches: words such as walk, stroll, march and trudge share a basic meaning but differ in…
Students learn to identify and use three kinds of non-literal language. Idioms are fixed phrases whose meaning cannot be worked out from…
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…
An original information article explaining how sleep helps the brain store memories, why teenagers' body clocks shift later, and what…
A history text about the hurricane that struck Galveston on September 8, 1900, the deadliest natural disaster in United States history,…
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.
