This eighth grade teacher's resource includes
36 weeks of targeted lessons
that will immediately become your favorite supplement to your language arts curriculum
.
The 176 focused language arts activities provide the practice students need to produce error-free writing assignments and include easy-to-use teacher support to deliver the lessons.
Lessons include 36 weeks of daily practice that cover these skills and concepts:
Capitalization: Quotations, salutations, titles of books, magazines, movies, and songs, incorrect use of capitals and more
Language Usage: Singular and plural forms, verb tenses, correct use of pronouns and adjectival and adverbial forms
Punctuation: Appostrophes, commas, periods, colons, semi-colons and more.
Spelling: identifying errors in spelling and in multiple-meaning words
Additional resources include:
scope and sequence chart
annotated answer key
assessment rubric
reproducible language handbook
page of reproducible proofreading marks
editing checklist for students
How it Works:
Students apply grade 8 language skills to correct a paragraph on Monday through Thursday; when read together, the four paragraphs form a cohesive composition. A writing prompt on Friday relates to the week's four-paragraph composition and provides an opportunity for students to apply the targeted language conventions they practiced.The weekly passages cover a broad range of expository and narrative writing forms, including:
nonfiction texts on grade-level social studies and science topics
biographies, book reviews, instructions, interviews, journal entries, and letters
fables, fantasy and science fiction, historical fiction, personal narratives,
and realistic fiction
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