Reading practice
Grade 8 reading comprehension
Read a passage, answer the questions, and see why each answer is right. Your Grade 8 reading score climbs with every passage.
Skills practised: Author's purpose · Cause and effect · Character traits · Details · Evidence · Inference · Main idea · Read a table · Sequence · Text features · Text structure · Timeline math · Vocabulary
Nonfiction
- Built For Survival: the Emperor PenguinDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the Humpback WhaleDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the Giant PandaDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the Great White SharkDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the Komodo DragonDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the African ElephantDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the KangarooDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the RoadrunnerDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the GiraffeDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the SlothDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the Bengal TigerDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the American BisonDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
Biographies
- George Washington Carver: How One Life Changed the WorldSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Alexander Graham Bell: How One Life Changed the WorldSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Katherine Johnson: How One Life Changed the WorldSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Mae Jemison: How One Life Changed the WorldSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Wangari Maathai: How One Life Changed the WorldSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Ernest Rutherford: How One Life Changed the WorldSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Kalpana Chawla: How One Life Changed the WorldSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Mary Anning: How One Life Changed the WorldSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Allan Cormack: How One Life Changed the WorldSequence, Details, Timeline math
Read a table
- Chemical Elements 13–18Read a table, Vocabulary, Text features