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Grade 8 Reading: Literature Worksheets

Free printable and interactive Grade 8 Reading: Literature worksheets aligned to Common Core. 32 worksheets so far. Every worksheet has an answer key and can be completed online with instant feedback.

RL.8.1

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

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Room on the Handlebars
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Below the Surface
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Before the Capsule Closes
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Back on the Goal Line
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RL.8.2

Find a theme or central idea, analyze how it develops through characters, setting, and plot, and write an objective summary.

RL.8.3

Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or events move the action forward, reveal a character, or prompt a decision.

RL.8.4

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

RL.8.5

Compare the structures of two or more texts and analyze how each structure adds to its meaning and style.

RL.8.6

Analyze how gaps between what characters and readers know, such as dramatic irony, create suspense or humor.

RL.8.7

Judge how faithfully a film or live production follows the text or script, and evaluate the director's or actors' choices.

RL.8.9

Analyze how a modern story draws on themes, events, or character types from myths, traditional tales, or religious works, and makes them new.

Room on the Handlebars

Below the Surface

Before the Capsule Closes

Back on the Goal Line

The Saturday Worth Sending

Beyond the Practice Script

The Other Column

Why the River Bends

Before the Replay

The Opening Rehearsal

Across from Her Brother

A Check Mark Is Not an Answer

A Voice Across the Snow

Where the Map Ends

The River That Learned to Listen

After the Windows Darken

Words Across the Table

One Hallway, Several Centers

A Loss, Two Ways of Telling

One Project, Two Story Structures

The Bird Above Mercer Street

The Expedition Around the Loop

Signals at the Serving Window

The Guest Behind the Microphone

The Repair Counter: From Story to Film

Two Plans, One Performance

Between Languages: Reading a Film Adaptation

A Rescue Shift on Page and Screen

An Ingredient Not Listed

What the Edit Removed

Spokes and Thread

The Phone at the Return Desk