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Grade 8

• Strand 1

  • 8.1.A
  • 8.1.B
  • 8.1.C
  • 8.1.D

• Strand 2

  • 8.2.A
  • 8.2.B
  • 8.2.C

• Strand 3

  • 8.3

• Strand 4

  • 8.4

• Strand 5

  • 8.5.A
  • 8.5.B
  • 8.5.C
  • 8.5.D
  • 8.5.E
  • 8.5.F
  • 8.5.G
  • 8.5.H
  • 8.5.I

• Strand 6

  • 8.6.A
  • 8.6.B
  • 8.6.C
  • 8.6.D
  • 8.6.E
  • 8.6.F
  • 8.6.G
  • 8.6.H
  • 8.6.I
  • 8.6.J

• Strand 7

  • 8.7.A
  • 8.7.B
  • 8.7.C
  • 8.7.D

• Strand 8

  • 8.8.A
  • 8.8.B
  • 8.8.C
  • 8.8.D
  • 8.8.D.i
  • 8.8.D.ii
  • 8.8.D.iii
  • 8.8.E
  • 8.8.E.i
  • 8.8.E.ii
  • 8.8.E.iii
  • 8.8.F

• Strand 9

  • 8.9.A
  • 8.9.B
  • 8.9.C
  • 8.9.D
  • 8.9.E
  • 8.9.F
  • 8.9.G

• Strand 10

  • 8.10.A
  • 8.10.B
  • 8.10.B.i
  • 8.10.B.ii
  • 8.10.C
  • 8.10.D
  • 8.10.D.i
  • 8.10.D.ii
  • 8.10.D.iii
  • 8.10.D.iv
  • 8.10.D.v
  • 8.10.D.vi
  • 8.10.D.vii
  • 8.10.E

• Strand 11

  • 8.11.A
  • 8.11.B
  • 8.11.C
  • 8.11.D

• Strand 12

  • 8.12.A
  • 8.12.B
  • 8.12.C
  • 8.12.D
  • 8.12.E
  • 8.12.F
  • 8.12.G
  • 8.12.H
  • 8.12.H.i
  • 8.12.H.ii
  • 8.12.I
  • 8.12.J

TEKS ELA Standard: 8.9.D

describe how the author’s use of figurative language such as extended metaphor achieves specific purposes

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How the lotus can teach your young students about resiliency.

Idioms About Money

Five sets of idioms related to money.

Idioms About Fire

Five sets of idioms related to fire!

Idiom Tasks

Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.

Idioms about Weather

Five sets of idioms related to the weather.

Idioms About Red

Five sets of idioms related to the color red.

Five Sets of Bird and Bug Idioms

Five sets of idioms related to birds (and bugs).

Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

What’s In My Brain: Cute Baby vs Fast Cheetah

Can students spot similes vs metaphors?

Describing Author’s Voice

What if… Edgar Allen Poe wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?