Tag Archives: Grade 8
Using Appropriate Tone in Writing #engchat
TweetShareOne of the most difficult literary devices to recognize as well as convey is tone. Helping students to identify tone in literature can be daunting, and helping students create the appropriate tone in their own original writing can also be a chore. The following are some tips to help students grasp the concept of tone. [...]
The Hunger Games Common Core Standards Based Guide Now Available!
TweetShareOne of our most-anticipated, highly requested Literature Guides is now available! Our Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Based Literature Guides for The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins has now been released! (*Currently only available in PDF/E-Guide download. Print version coming soon!) Over 300 pages of materials, designed for grades 7-9 including: 19 specific Pre-Reading Ideas and [...]
Annotated version of the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts, Grade 8
TweetShareAs promised, I have now completed the Annotated Common Core Standards for Grade 8! The more vague standards have been broken down into bite-sized chunks to help you understand them better, and thus, be able to implement them better. Some of the standards were already pretty self-explanatory so I left those alone, but wherever you [...]
