Daily Reading Comprehension, Grade 8 Sb


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Give your students their own practice book for daily instruction on reading strategies and skills--and reduce time spent on photocopying! The student book contains the same student pages as the teacher's edition. Student books do not contain answer keys. (Teacher's editions only.) Help your eighth grade students learn how to understand, respond to, and enjoy what they read! The student book provides full-page daily activities on reading strategies and skills. Daily Reading Comprehension presents students with direct instruction and practice of the comprehension strategies and skills they need to become strong and successful readers. 150 original fiction and nonfiction passages with comprehension items help you engage students in reading, thinking about, and responding to a variety of texts. Reproducible pages, included in the teacher's edition, provide visual tools for students to help them apply reading skills to the passages they read. And because activities are presented in an exam format, students practice important test-taking skills while they strengthen comprehension. What's new in the revised edition? Visual aid comprehension pages Constructed response questions. Standards-aligned questions replace multiple choice questions. 30 weeks of instruction cover the following reading skills and strategies: Skills: Strategies: Theme Evaluate Evidence Character and Setting Main Idea and Details Visual Information Author's Purpose Prediction Make Inferences Cause and Effect Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Text Features Sequence Monitor Comprehension Make Connections Visualization Organization Determine Important Information Ask Questions You'll love Daily Reading Comprehension because it... provides students with direct instruction and practice of reading skills and strategies. supports struggling and reluctant readers. integrates easily into any language program and any classroom. works great for test-prep. is correlated to current standards. Engage your students in reading, thinking about, and responding to a variety of passages and texts with Daily Reading Comprehension!




Learning to Study, Grade 8, Book H, Teacher Guide


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Good study skills and strategies can mean the difference between failure and success.




Ready-to-Use Writing Proficiency Lessons & Activities


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This volume of Ready-to-Use Writing Proficiency Lessons & Activities gives classroom teachers and language arts specialists a powerful and effective tool for addressing curriculum standards and competencies at the eighth-grade level and preparing their students for comprehensive assessment testing. Writing Proficiency Lessons & Activities books are also available from Jossey-Bass at the fourth-grade level and the tenth-grade level. Included are a variety of easy-to-use, reproducible activity sheets that provide application and review the basic language skills as well as extensive practice in producing the types of writing called for in standardized tests. For easy use, the 240-plus student activity sheets are printed in a big 8-1/2" x 11" format that lays flat for photocopying. The activities are organized into nine sections. Here is just a sample of the topics covered in Sections 1-5: CHOOSING THE RIGHT WORD: words often confused, prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, adverbs vs. adjectives, sensory words, similes, metaphors, and double negatives MAKING MECHANICS AND USAGE WORK FOR YOU: apostrophes, hyphens, end marks, commas, semicolons, colons, quotation marks, titles, and misplaced modifiers. WRITING SENTENCES: subjects and predicates, subject-verb agreement, simple and compound sentences, complex sentences, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and sentence types WRITING PARAGRAPHS: writing a topic sentence, writing a concluding sentence, developing the topic, using tense consistently, using transitional words, and staying on the topic ESSAY-WRITING TECHNIQUES: brainstorming, clustering, outlining, writing an introductory paragraph with a question or a surprising statement, developing the topic using examples, avoiding irrelevant details, writing a concluding paragraph, proofreading, and writing a five-paragraph essay.




Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 8


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Engage students with this dynamic practice book! Featuring motivating activities and a variety of passages that meet Common Core and other state standards, this book will help improve students' knowledge and reading skills. Bridge the gap between struggling and proficient readers, bringing students up to an eighth grade reading level. This practice book is the perfect tool to bring students up to grade level and improve test scores!




Ready-to-Use Reading Proficiency Lessons & Activities


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This volume of Ready-to-Use Reading Proficiency Lessons & Activities gives classroom teachers and reading specialists a dynamic and progressive way to meet curriculum standards and competencies at the eighth-grade level. It provides stimulating and effective ways to help students master basic reading and language content, and prepare to demonstrate their knowledge at the appropriate level.




Focus on English


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Reading Comprehension, Grade 8


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Workbook Features: * Ages 13+, Grade 8 * 64 pages, about 8 1⁄2 inches x 11 inches * Offers engaging activities to develop reading comprehension skills * Includes nonfiction passages, practice assessments, and more * Answer key and instructional resources included Essential Reading Skills: The Mark Twain Reading Comprehension Workbook helps eighth graders students reinforce their reading comprehension skills by reading passages from a variety of topics and subjects. What's Included: This workbook contains versatile reading passages, before- and after-reading activities, differentiated guides, and vocabulary exercises to develop reading comprehension skills. How It Works: Students read different passages covering poetry, nonfiction, speeches, articles, and more, and answer before- and after-reading questions. Assessments focus on text recall, vocabulary, and more to enhance language arts skills. Working Together: Parents love using the workbook for added practice from home, and teachers love to incorporate it into hands-on reading lessons during class. An answer key is included to help track student progress. Why Mark Twain Media: Designed by leading educators, Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and resources in a wide range of subjects for middle- and upper-grade classroom success.




New York State Grade 8 English Language Arts


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REA ... Real review, Real practice, Real results. REA's New York Grade 8 English Language Arts Study Guide with TestWare Fully aligned with New York's Core Curriculum Standards Are you prepared to excel on this state high-stakes assessment exam? * Take the diagnostic Pretest and find out what you know and what you should know * Use REA's advice and tips to ready yourself for proper study and practice Sharpen your knowledge and skills * The book's full subject review refreshes knowledge and covers all topics on the official exam, including vocabulary, literary analysis, drafting, revising, and editing to reinforce key English language lessons * Smart and friendly lessons reinforce necessary skills * Key tutorials enhance specific abilities needed on the test * Targeted drills increase comprehension and help organize study * Color icons and graphics highlight important concepts and tasks Practice for real * Create the closest experience to test-day conditions with a full-length practice Posttest on TESTware. * Chart your progress with detailed explanations of each answer * Boost confidence with test-taking strategies and focused drills Ideal for Classroom, Family, or Solo Test Preparation REA has helped generations of students study smart and excel on the important tests. REA's study guides for state-required exams are teacher-recommended and written by experts who have mastered the test.