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Grade 8 Reading: Informational Text Worksheets

Free printable and interactive Grade 8 Reading: Informational Text worksheets aligned to Common Core. 35 worksheets so far. Every worksheet has an answer key and can be completed online with instant feedback.

RI.8.1

Cite the evidence that most strongly supports what an informational text says directly and what can be inferred.

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Beyond the Golden Spike
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What a Monarch's Journey Can Tell Us
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When Lava Becomes Land
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Shade Where It Counts
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RI.8.2

Find the central idea, analyze how it develops and connects to supporting ideas, and write an objective summary.

RI.8.3

Analyze how a text connects and distinguishes people, ideas, or events, such as through comparisons, analogies, or categories.

RI.8.4

Work out figurative, connotative, and technical meanings, and how word choices, analogies, or allusions affect meaning and tone.

RI.8.5

Analyze the structure of a paragraph in detail, including how particular sentences develop and refine a key idea.

RI.8.6

Identify an author's point of view or purpose and how the author answers conflicting evidence or viewpoints.

RI.8.7

Weigh the strengths and weaknesses of print, digital text, video, or multimedia for presenting a topic or idea.

RI.8.8

Outline and evaluate an argument, judging its reasoning and evidence, and notice when irrelevant evidence is brought in.

RI.8.9

Analyze two or more texts that disagree on the same topic and find where they conflict on facts or interpretation.

Beyond the Golden Spike

What a Monarch's Journey Can Tell Us

When Lava Becomes Land

Shade Where It Counts

Making Room for a Real Break

More Bike Lanes, Better Connections?

Fresh Water Beyond the Filter

From Seafloor to Shoreline

Ocean Plastic: Matching the Tool to the Problem

One City, Different Kinds of Heat

Homework: Where Should the Limit Be?

From Moving Air to Electric Current

Messages Without Words

Desalination: Reading Beneath the Surface

Connected Routes, Deliberate Words

Homework Limits: Building the Case Sentence by Sentence

GPS: From Signals to a Position

What a Cleanup Count Leaves Out

Inside a Heartbeat: How Explanations Work

Phones in Class: Where Should the Line Be?

What Turning Blades Can—and Cannot—Promise

Reading the Dance, Following the Scent

Smallpox Vaccines: Testing a Promising Idea

A Heartbeat Through Different Media

One Uniform Proposal, Four Presentations

Finding Your Position: GPS Across Media

Ancient Writing, Different Windows

What Counts as a Vaccine Breakthrough?

Phones Away: Does the Argument Hold Up?

Did the Press Change Everything at Once?

A Stopover Worth Protecting?

Hieroglyphs: What Does “Picture Writing” Explain?

Building the Great Wall: One Project or Many?

Longer Recess: Finding the Real Disagreements

School Uniforms: Where the Arguments Divide