Help your 8th-grade students perfect their writing skills, with our most popular creative writing printables. These activities and worksheets are fun way for students to learn and grow. We have plenty of poetry and short-story activities for them to enjoy, plus many other types of lessons! We have holiday-themed worksheets, daily writing prompts, graphic organizers, figurative language worksheets, character analysis exercises, vocabulary builders, cross-curricular projects, and much more!
Grades:
- Who Am I? – Character Description
- Scoring Rubric: Poetry
- Story Starters
- Student Proofreading Checklist
- Creative Writing with Photo Inspiration
- The Middle Ages: The Feudal System Activity Packet
- Writing a Character Sketch
- Scoring Rubric: Research Report/Paper
- Be a Journalist!
- Poetry Terms Quiz
- An Immigrant's Story
- The Middle Ages: Knights and Knighthood Activity Packet
- The Middle Ages: Medieval Towns Activity Packet
- The "I Remember" Poem
- Scoring Rubric: Literary Analysis/Interpretation
- Really Good: Producing Synonyms
- The Peanuts Gang: Charles Schulz
- Life's Not Always Fair
- Scoring Rubric: Fictional Narrative
- Denotation/Connotation
- My New Year's Resolutions (7-12)
- Scoring Rubric: Cause-Effect
- Risking It All for a Friend
- Building a Buddy
- Great Teacher
- Scoring Rubric: Problem-Solution
- Scoring Rubric: Critical Review
- Where Are the Wild Things: Maurice Sendak
- License Plate Quickies: Writing a Paragraph
- The Final Shot
- More Creative Writing Printables, 8th Grade