ELA Worksheets

Learning Objectives

• Understand how characters change throughout a story.
• Identify traits revealed through actions, dialogue, and reactions.
• Analyze character interactions to determine motivations and relationships.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Understand key concepts related to ELA
• Apply knowledge through practice questions
• Demonstrate comprehension of the material

Learning Objectives

• Apply high-impact usage rules (who vs. whom, less vs. fewer, lay vs. lie) in formal writing.
• Use pronouns and verb forms correctly, especially with compound subjects.
• Revise sentences to remove credibility-damaging errors and improve clarity and meaning.

Learning Objectives

• Explain how a writer’s organizational structure (timeline, compare-and-contrast, cause-and-effect) helps readers understand key ideas.
• Identify purpose and key claims by analyzing how paragraphs connect to each other within a whole text.
• Use signal words and structure clues to describe relationships between events, ideas, and reasons.

Learning Objectives

• Identify ideas related to drafting paragraph content
• Select appropriate responses about paragraph drafting
• Explain ideas through short written responses+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Understand how different organizational structures affect the development of ideas in writing.
• Identify various organizational choices such as timeline, compare-and-contrast, and cause-and-effect.
• Analyze how paragraph and section structures reinforce an author's purpose and guide understanding.

Learning Objectives

• Identify elements that support effective summary structure
• Select accurate responses about summary structure
• Explain ideas through short written responses+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Identify the main stages of plot structure: introduction, rising tension, turning point, and resolution.
• Explain how one event leads to the next in a story.
• Describe how conflict changes the direction of a plot.

Learning Objectives

• Identify an opinion claim and explain how reasons support the claim
• Use relevant facts and clear explanations to connect reasons to an opinion
• Write a concluding statement that restates the main idea

Learning Objectives

• Identify similes and metaphors in grade-appropriate text.
• Explain how personification gives human traits to nonhuman things.
• Use figurative language images to understand mood, character description, and author intent.

Learning Objectives

• Identify errors in sentence boundaries and punctuation.
• Correct run-on sentences and comma splices.
• Apply proper capitalization and spelling conventions.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Integrate evidence from multiple sources (texts, audio/video, and visuals) to form a coherent, accurate explanation.
• Evaluate the credibility of sources and distinguish strong support from questionable claims.
• Identify connections and tensions across sources and synthesize information without relying on a single viewpoint.

Learning Objectives

• Determine how figurative language and connotation influence a text’s meaning and tone.
• Analyze how surrounding context (nearby sentences and ideas) clarifies ambiguous words or phrases.
• Support claims about author purpose by citing specific figurative language.

Learning Objectives

• Define central idea and explain how it differs from a topic.
• Identify how a passage develops a central idea using key details and relationships (cause-effect, definition, example).
• Use evidence from specific sentences to justify a central-idea claim.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Identify key ideas and supporting evidence across speakers in a discussion.
• Distinguish evidence from opinions and synthesize multiple viewpoints into a coherent summary.
• Write a clear conclusion that connects to the discussion’s main ideas and themes.

Learning Objectives

• Use end punctuation correctly to distinguish statements, questions, and exclamations.
• Use commas to separate items in a series, introductory phrases, and nonessential descriptions.
• Apply apostrophes for possession and contractions.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Revise writing to make ideas clearer by improving wording, sentence order, and connections between main ideas and supporting details.
• Identify unclear sentences and gaps in explanation during revision and suggest specific changes.
• Use simple transition words to improve the flow between ideas while maintaining correct language conventions.

Learning Objectives

• Determine a passage’s central idea and explain what the text is mainly about
• Use details (examples, definitions, and cause-effect relationships) to support a central idea
• Explain how ideas develop across paragraphs, including refinement or shifts in emphasis

Learning Objectives

• Identify how end punctuation (periods, question marks, exclamation points) changes sentence meaning and purpose.
• Use commas correctly to separate introductory phrases, nonessential details, and items in a series.
• Apply apostrophes and quotation marks accurately for possession, contractions, and direct speech.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• I can synthesize discussion contributions by combining key ideas into a coherent, reasoned summary.
• I can distinguish evidence from opinions and identify similarities and differences across speakers’ viewpoints.
• I can write a conclusion that states a clear final claim connected to the discussion’s key ideas.

Learning Objectives

• Identify information related to synthesis and conclusion
• Evaluate statements about synthesis and conclusion
• Construct short responses about synthesis and conclusion+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Identify moments of confusion during Grade 3 reading practice
• Respond to clarifying confusion questions using selected formats
• Construct short responses related to the reading topic+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Identify main ideas across multiple texts.
• Compare different viewpoints presented in sources.
• Recognize strategies used for effective synthesis.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Use end punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation point) correctly in different sentence types.
• Apply comma rules for introductory phrases, nonessential information, and items in a series.
• Use apostrophes for contractions and possession, and use quotation marks for direct text.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Identify pronouns and their antecedents in Grade 8 writing.
• Revise sentences so pronouns clearly match antecedents in number and person.
• Detect and correct ambiguous pronoun references and perspective shifts.

Learning Objectives

• Explain how a topic sentence and supporting details create unity within a paragraph.
• Identify details that belong to a paragraph’s main idea and recognize unrelated information.
• Revise paragraph sentences to improve clarity, coherence, and focus.

Learning Objectives

• Draft a paragraph with a clear topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a final sentence that reinforces the idea.
• Use logically ordered details to maintain focus on the controlling idea while drafting.
• Vary sentence beginnings to improve paragraph flow and readability.

Learning Objectives

• Identify a representation’s purpose by using clues such as title, visuals, and word choice.
• Find key details that support the stated purpose (what is most important and what strengthens the message).
• Explain how multiple purpose signals work together to show whether something is meant to inform, persuade, describe, or explain.

Learning Objectives

• Identify what makes a quotation accurate by matching exact words, punctuation, and meaning from a source.
• Choose evidence (definitions, statistics, and cause-and-effect statements) that best supports a specific claim.
• Embed quotations smoothly in explanatory writing and explain how the evidence proves the point.

Learning Objectives

• Ensure pronouns match their antecedents in number and person (he/she/they; this/that).
• Revise ambiguous pronoun references so they clearly point to one noun.
• Maintain consistent point of view by avoiding perspective shifts that change pronoun meaning.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Identify how ethos, pathos, and logos work together to persuade a reader.
• Analyze how specific rhetorical devices (such as rhetorical questions and appeals to authority) shape meaning.
• Explain how an argument’s structure (leads, transitions, and concluding claims) supports or undermines a viewpoint.

Learning Objectives

• Identify key information suitable for a text summary
• Recognize important ideas within a text
• Explain summary choices in short written responses+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Identify ethos, pathos, and logos signals in persuasive writing
• Analyze rhetorical questions and authority appeals in arguments
• Explain how examples support specific persuasive viewpoints+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Identify the main idea of a text and choose key supporting points for a summary.
• Write a summary that stays accurate while omitting minor details and unrelated examples.
• Use text structure to organize summaries (cause-effect, problem-solution, or sequence).

Learning Objectives

• Explain why citing sources is important in research and writing.
• Identify different types of source attributions and citations.
• Practice attributing information correctly in context.

Learning Objectives

• Explain how to integrate information from multiple sources to build a coherent understanding
• Evaluate the credibility of evidence by distinguishing strong support from questionable claims
• Identify connections and tensions between ideas across sources and revise conclusions accordingly

Learning Objectives

• Identify the main idea and key supporting points in a text to create an accurate summary.
• Omit minor details, examples that do not advance the central idea, and unrelated facts while keeping the author’s meaning.
• Write summaries that follow the text’s structure and include important cause-effect or problem-solution relationships when present.

Learning Objectives

• I can explain why citations help readers trust information.
• I can match a citation to a specific statement, such as a definition or a statistic.
• I can tell the difference between original wording and borrowed information while keeping my writing clear.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Identify where a text becomes confusing and describe what part needs clarification.
• Use strategies such as rereading, looking at surrounding sentences, and using context clues to repair understanding.
• Connect new information in a text to ideas the author has already stated.

Learning Objectives

• Use respectful phrases to agree, disagree politely, or express concern during discussions.
• Respond directly to the idea being discussed by referencing what someone said.
• Ask respectful follow-up questions to deepen understanding and support collaboration.

Learning Objectives

• Explain how a central idea presents a text’s main point and guides interpretation of supporting details.
• Identify central ideas by tracking recurring topics, key details, and patterns of elaboration in a text.
• Distinguish primary details that directly develop the central idea from secondary details that clarify or provide background.

Learning Objectives

• Explain how attribution and commentary help readers understand the relationship between a source and a writer’s claim.
• Integrate paraphrased and quoted material smoothly by avoiding abrupt quotes and patchwriting.
• Identify common mistakes in citation integration and choose strategies that preserve readability.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Explain how precise citations connect a source to a specific statement, such as a definition, statistic, or explanation.
• Choose the best citation for a given sentence and avoid vague attribution.
• Distinguish borrowed information from original wording while keeping writing clear.

Learning Objectives

• Explain how a character changes across a story by using actions, dialogue, and responses to events.
• Identify character traits and motivations that shape goals and obstacles in the plot.
• Describe how interactions with other characters influence relationships and drive events forward.

Learning Objectives

• I can revise writing by checking that the main idea matches supporting details.
• I can improve clarity by adding transitions and fixing unclear sentences.
• I can reorder sentences or change word choice so my message is more direct.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Explain how genre selection shapes expectations for organization, style, and evidence use.
• Differentiate argumentative, explanatory, and research-report writing by their typical purpose and structure.
• Craft introductions and conclusions that align with genre-specific communicative functions.

Learning Objectives

• Integrate paraphrased and quoted material into a paragraph while maintaining readability.
• Use attribution to explain whose ideas or words are being used.
• Select the best commentary that connects a source to a claim.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Explain how visual and multimedia design choices (layout, color, scale, and emphasis) communicate meaning.
• Interpret information from images, diagrams, charts, and labels by reading the text and understanding relationships.
• Describe how pacing and the combination of modes (visuals, text overlays, narration) work together to shape meaning.