Our year 8 comprehension worksheets are designed for students to demonstrate and further their understanding of texts, including classical plays, poems, and story extracts. Your child will do this through multiple choice questions, short written answers and other means to help them solidify their learnings. Questions are designed to show that your child understands the story, argument, or meaning of a text and the techniques deployed by the writer to convey this. Student`s understanding of the work forms the foundation on which critical text comparisons can be made.

Year 8 students may make critical comparisons of poems that share similar themes, demonstrating that they can infer tone, atmosphere, or basic subtext from a writer`s choice of descriptive and evocative language. They’ll also become capable of understanding basic literary techniques like similes and metaphors. Students will be encouraged to read widely for pleasure and also to understand how different styles of writing affect readers. After they finish texts, students may also be asked about their general comprehension of the overall text.

In year 8, your child should learn that texts can be compared and contrasted with one another. Using extracts from classical books like Bram Stoker`s Dracula and Mary Shelley`s Frankenstein, your child can demonstrate their comprehension by comparing each author`s approach to characterisation and how it impacts the reader`s impression and connection to the story, as well as understand that writing can be placed within context; for instance, by examining the author`s period within history and how it affects how the piece is read today.

Your child should become capable of understanding meaning through author’s word choices and basic techniques like similes and metaphors. In non-fiction texts, they’ll learn how to separate fact from opinion and see how a writer may use facts to strengthen their argument.