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Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Students will read and write across various literary genres including poetry and will complete extension projects, interactive activities in the classroom including Socratic discussion circles and a research paper in order to answer the question: What makes writing worth reading? 8th Grade ELA Novels. A Break With Charity by Ann Rinaldi.
Encouraging eighth-grade readers to delve deep into the text, to unearth jewels of human understanding, author's purpose, knowledge and layers of meaning, makes our reading comprehension passages a multifaceted process. The metacognitive element in our printable worksheets will enable students to monitor and evaluate their process of comprehension to become independent readers. Give your students opportunities of independent learning with passages they'll devour. Our non-fiction collection comprises topics like Harry Houdini, Josh Gibson, Thirteen Colonies, North America or The Great Compromise of 1787 to name only a few. Get hold of some of these handouts for free!
Engage students actively with this pdf biographical extract of the most loved clown; Weary Willie. Review skills of summarizing the author's purpose by drawing inferences, with the help of this worksheet.
Encourage higher-level thinking skills to increase comprehension in your eighth-grade students with our passage on anthropologist Frank Hamilton and his unique study of the Zuni people.
Make reading comprehension more relevant and meaningful for your students, with this inspiring story of a track athlete, who perhaps best demonstrated 'triumph over adversity'.
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The non-fiction passage on Josh Gibson, the extraordinary baseball player, will help students increase interest and understanding, and build necessary connections with personal knowledge.
Help students of eighth grade to brush up comprehension strategies, modeling and independent practice with this printable worksheet on Dr. Apgar's path-breaking invention in Obstetrics.
The biographical passage on Wilson Bentley, the 'snowflake man' will certainly engage students in the skills of predicting, questioning and clarifying, answering the variety of questions in our worksheet.
Use this informative text and pdf worksheet to provide a thorough practice in analyzing, delineating and evaluating the argument in developing and refining the key concept; 'The Great Compromise of 1787'.
This very title is appealing enough for grade 8 students to jump headfirst into this reading comprehension printable, to gain an explicit understanding of the text to provide an objective summary.
The continent of North America with its numerous fascinating features makes it unique just as our worksheet, in its variety. Let the students celebrate comprehension, by building on personal experiences.
Our reading comprehension activities on this passage about the creation of the U.S. Constitution will positively reinforce metacognitive reading skills in students of grade 8, for independent learning.
Reading 8th Grade Practice
The perspective presented in this article about the lesser-known African-American pioneers make it reflective and informative. It has been made more effective with our reading comprehension worksheet.