8th Grade Reading Worksheets
Ages 13-14 · 9 topics · 190 worksheets
8th grade reading worksheets (190) for ages 13-14: novel studies, fiction and nonfiction passages, paired texts and poetry, most with answer keys.
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8th grade reading worksheets on ClassWeekly are 190 printable sheets for ages 13-14 across 9 topics. They cover novel studies on public domain books, fiction and nonfiction passages, paired texts, poetry, connotation, spelling and study skills.
8th grade reading asks students to cite the evidence that most strongly supports an analysis, follow how a central idea develops, and judge whether an argument's reasoning is sound.
This page collects all 190 reading worksheets for 8th grade. Novel Studies is the largest topic with 79 sheets on The War of the Worlds, The Red Badge of Courage, Kidnapped, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, The Story of My Life and The Loss of the SS Titanic, plus quote responses from eight more classic novels. Paragraphs & Passages has 40 fiction and nonfiction passages, and Comprehension Exercises has 25 on paired texts, reading responses, text structure and author's purpose.
Spelling has 14 sheets, Poetry 9, Shades of Meaning 9, Study Skills 8, Compare and Contrast 4 and Story Elements 2.
178 of the 190 sheets have an answer key. The other 12 are mostly study plans, reading surveys and goal sheets. 168 sheets carry a grade 8 Common Core code.
Last reviewed: November 2026