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8th Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets

The reading comprehension passages below include 8th grade appropriate reading passages and related questions. Please use any of the printable worksheets (you may duplicate them) in your classroom or at home. Just click on the worksheet title to view details about the PDF and print or download to your computer.

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Analyzing O! Pioneers

Analyzing O! Pioneers

A passage from the classic novel “O! Pioneers” is the focus of this worksheet on citing text examples.

Grade Levels:
6th - 8th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
RL.8.1

Character Development in The Tell-Tale Heart

Character Development in The Tell-Tale Heart

This worksheet uses Poe’s classic, “The Tell-Tale Heart” to help the student analyze aspects of a character.

Grade Levels:
6th - 8th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
RL.8.3

Evaluating Text: My Life

Evaluating Text: My Life

In this worksheet, your student will assess a premise in Helen Keller’s autobiography, My Life.

Grade Levels:
6th - 8th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
RI.8.8

Finding Text Evidence: Frederick Douglass

Finding Text Evidence: Frederick Douglass

Your student will look for textual evidence in Frederick Douglass’ autobiography in this worksheet.

Grade Levels:
6th - 8th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
RI.8.1

How Do I Love Thee? Supporting Ideas

How Do I Love Thee? Supporting Ideas

Citing text examples is the focus of this poetry worksheet of Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee?”

Grade Levels:
6th - 8th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
RL.8.1

Literature About Chicago: Prose vs. Poetry

Literature About Chicago: Prose vs. Poetry

It’s prose vs. poetry in this worksheet on literature about Chicago.

Grade Levels:
6th - 8th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
RL.8.4

Shakespeare’s Language: What’s the Meaning?

Shakespeare’s Language: What’s the Meaning?

Your student will determine the meaning of some of the words and phrases from a soliloquy from Shakespeare’s As You Like It.

Grade Levels:
6th - 8th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
RL.8.4

Summarize It: President Theodore Roosevelt’s Message

Summarize It: President Theodore Roosevelt’s Message

In this worksheet, your student will summarize part of President Theodore Roosevelt’s message to Congress about conservation.

Grade Levels:
6th - 8th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
RI.8.2

The Ransom of Red Chief

The Ransom of Red Chief

Your student will examine the use of irony in this classic humorous short story.

Grade Levels:
6th - 8th Grade, Grades K-12

What’s the Purpose? FDR’s Pearl Harbor Speech

What’s the Purpose? FDR’s Pearl Harbor Speech

Your student will explore the purpose of President Franklin Roosevelt’s speech on the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Grade Levels:
6th - 8th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
RI.8.6
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