Worksheets By Grade Level

Our 40,000+ language arts worksheets are leveled by grade. We pride ourselves on being able to provide students with accurate tasks and practice for the exact skills they will be required to complete on assessments. This curriculum is aligned with the national standards and framework. The flow of topics promotes a layered approach to learning. As you advance through the grade levels you will also note that students are often taught in a spiral fashion that leads to a more concrete learning process. These language arts worksheets should help.


Kindergarten - Kindergartners start with basic phonics and vocabulary activities. They then progress on to listening and reading short passages for comprehension and understanding.

Grade 1 - We work mostly on pre-reading skills at this level. We start to introduce language skills that require repetition. This is a really good time to students invested in using study skills.

Grade 2 - Reading really takes leaps and bounds at this level. We go from reading simple sentences to comparing and contrasting two lengthy passages. Students should be working towards reading endurance.

Grade 3 - We take the next step. Reading does really take a jump up at this level. I feel that the progression in required vocabulary rises significantly at this level shift.

Grade 4 - This is the level where readers really start to struggle as we add advanced phonics and have students focus on their reading stamina. Students start to work on grammar skills as well as writing styles.

Grade 5 - This is where we start to understand how to validate our answers with quotes and references. There is a good deal of effort set towards understanding what we write and why we write it. Students will start to write and read for purpose.

Grade 6 - We start to use more formal forms of language and our reading levels jump leaps and bounds. Learners, at this point, are preparing to enter secondary school and the work reflects that.

Grade 7 - The language section gets a bit difficult for weak writers. Remind students that strong readers almost always become strong writers.

Grade 8 - This level requires deep thinking before writing and reading. Self evaluation and reflection is a critical aspect of this grade level. This is the first time students are asked to this self evaluate themselves.

Grade 9-10 - For some reason the curriculum committee lumped the high school grades together in pairs. The secondary level has a wide variation of what works of literature they focus on from State to State and even within regions of individual States themselves.

How Is Curriculum Grade Leveled?


The process of leveling any curriculum usually starts with the help of experts in each of the fields of disciplines. The experts are most likely academics and tied to a major university, but can often be educational consultants that have boundless experience. The experts recommend a general framework of what should be touched on at every progression of school strata (primary, elementary, and secondary).


From there curriculum writer's take the framework and build a list of skills and goals students should work to master. They build a scope and sequence chart that aligns all the progressions together. This is usually done at the State or school system level. Individual classroom teachers (depending on the State) or curriculum specialists begin to flesh out from the exact individual goals for students. From here curriculum support companies begin to write instructional materials to help support classroom teachers towards these goals.


There are four primary means of leveling reading material. The Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) which bases most of it score on accuracy leading to fluency and overall comprehension. The Fountas and Pinnell readability scale focuses a bit more on length, complexity, and vocabulary repetition. The Grade Level Equivalent system, which we tend to lean towards, bases their system on expected skills of students for each level. One of the more popular scales is the Lexile measure which scores material based on difficulty level. While we are on the topic of leveling English language arts materials, there are some things teachers and administrators need to take into account or read into when using materials that are leveled. Every work is unique and sometimes a series of vocabulary words used can make it jump or fall grade levels. This happens often with the use of scientific or content specific jargon. It is tough for a reader to jump up the scale too quick. There are some educators that try to push students up the levels too fast and this hurts the student’s self confidence which affects their overall impression on reading. This can have lasting affects through their youth through adulthood.