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8th Grade Comprehension Exercises Worksheets

Ages 13-14 · 5 sub-topics · Free previews · Print-ready PDFs

Comprehension exercises ask students to read closely and explain their thinking in writing. There are 25 worksheets for 8th grade, and 22 of them have answer keys, on paired texts, reading response, text structure, claims and personification. How Starlings Came to America, Respond to Dramatic Irony in a Story and Evaluate an Op-Ed's Reasoning and Evidence are three of the sheets. Three reading response boards are open tools that work with any book.

Written by Adi Ackerman, Head Teacher

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Frequently Asked Questions

Paired texts are two passages on the same subject or pattern, read together. Some pairs set an old tale beside a modern story, and others set a popular story beside a text that checks the evidence, as How Starlings Came to America does.

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