6th, 7th 8th Grade Worksheets | Middle School Reading Printables

How to Write an Introduction: Lead, Bridge, and Thesis

Let’s combine it all! This activity helps students use thesis statements, bridges and leads to write strong essay introductions.

How to Write an Introduction: Write a Complete Introduction

This activity helps students bring together what they’ve learned to write a complete introduction, including the lead, bridge, and thesis statement.

Identify the Complement

In this activity, students will read sentences that have both subject complements and object complements. They’ll identify which is which.

Idioms and Adages for Christmas

Help your students better understand idioms and adages with this Christmas Phrases Activity. Students will be asked to rewrite each sentence in his/her own words without using the idiom or adage.

Inference in Literature: The Wizard of Oz

“The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” will help your student learn inference.

Inference Practice 2: Where Am I?

Here’s some inference practice for your middle school student.

Informal and Formal Writing

Here’s a worksheet on identifying and correcting informal language in sentences.

Informal or Formal?

This worksheet asks your student to determine if a sentence is written in a formal or informal style.

Irish Proverbs Worksheet Activity

This activity lists some Irish proverbs, and your students will explain what they think each one means.

Irony in Poetry

Two poetry passages from classic literature are the focus of this irony worksheet.

Is It an Independent Clause or a Dependent Clause?

Time to identify the clause: independent or dependent?

Limited Resources

This reading comprehension worksheet asks your student to read and analyze conservation techniques for natural resources.

Literature About Chicago: Prose vs. Poetry

It’s prose vs. poetry in this worksheet on literature about Chicago.

Look Around! Meaning in Context

It’s all about spotting the context clues in this worksheet!

Staying organized can be difficult, especially when you are trying to keep your writing and ideas well organized. With this printable Main Idea Graphic Organizer, students can keep their thoughts and ideas organized and separated based on their order of importance.