8th Grade ELA (Reading & Writing)
Choose a topic below for a quick test drive of Learning Farm's standards-based practice and instruction.
Reading
- Word Resources
- Context Clues
- Greek & Latin Roots
- Connotative Meanings
- Technical Meanings
- Multiple Meaning Words
- Theme
- Plot
- Setting
- Characters
- Point of View in Literature
- Poetry
- Text Structure in Informational Texts
- Text Features and Graphics
- Informational Texts
- Author's Purpose & Message
- Argumentative Text
- Interpreting Figurative Language
- Summarizing
- Compare & Contrast Archetypes
- Rhetorical Devices & Logical Fallacies
Writing
- Pre-Writing: Planning and Organizing
- Elements of Writing: Structure and Development
- Research and Synthesis
- Revising & Editing
- Formal Writing
- Sentence Structure
- Verbs
- Prepositions
- Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
- Capitalization
- Punctuation
- Spelling
- Literary Text Prompts
- Informational Text Prompts
- Argumentative Text Prompts
- Responses to Text Prompts