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8th Grade Nonfiction Passages Worksheets

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Written by Adi Ackerman, Head Teacher

Nonfiction passages give students an article, biography, memoir or argument and a page of questions about central ideas, connections and evidence. There are 27 sheets for 8th grade here, each with an answer key. Fred Korematsu Challenges an Unjust Order, The Science of Rising Bread and Was Biosphere 2 a Success? are three of them. The sheets practice RI.8.1, RI.8.2, RI.8.3, RI.8.5, RI.8.6 and RI.8.8.

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The biographies cover Thurgood Marshall, Dorothea Dix, Fred Korematsu, Ellen Ochoa, Althea Gibson and Mabel Ping-Hua Lee. A memoir excerpt from Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington is also included.

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