8th Grade ELA (Reading & Writing)
Choose a topic below for a quick test drive of Learning Farm's standards-based practice and instruction.
Reading
- Author's Point of View and Purpose
- Text Features and Graphics
- Compare and Contrast Texts
- Setting
- Text Structure in Literature
- Text Structure in Informational Texts
- Figurative Language and Literary Devices
- Technical Meanings
- Impact and Tone
- Inferences in Literature
- Plot
- Characters
- Theme
- Inferences in Informational Texts
- Main Idea and Supporting Details
- Persuasive Arguments and Claims
- Poetry
- Traditional Literary Genres
- Pre-Writing: Planning and Organizing
- Research and Synthesis
- Greek & Latin Roots
- Context Clues
- Multiple Meaning Words
- Connotative Meanings
- Word Resources
- Reference Materials (Dictionaries, Glossaries, Thesaurus)
Writing
- Research Resources
- Elements of Writing: Structure and Development
- Transitions
- Organizing Writing
- Figures of Speech
- Formal Writing
- Literary Text Prompts
- Informational Text Prompts
- Argumentative Text Prompts
- Correspondence & Response to Text Prompts
- Punctuation
- Sentence Structure
- Verbs
- Misplaced/Dangling Modifiers
- Academic Words and Phrases
- Word Relationships
- Connotative Meanings