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Grade 8

• Communication and Multimodal Literacies

  • 8.C.1
  • 8.C.1.A
  • 8.C.2.A
  • 8.C.3
  • 8.C.3.A
  • 8.C.3.B
  • 8.C.4
  • 8.C.4.A

• Language Usage

  • 8.LU.1
  • 8.LU.1.C
  • 8.LU.2
  • 8.LU.2.C

• Research

  • 8.R.1
  • 8.R.1.B
  • 8.R.1.E
  • 8.R.1.F

• Reading Informational Text

  • 8.RI.3.B

• Reading Literary Text

  • 8.RL.1
  • 8.RL.1.A
  • 8.RL.2
  • 8.RL.2.A
  • 8.RL.2.B

• Reading and Vocabulary

  • 8.RV.1
  • 8.RV.1.B
  • 8.RV.1.C
  • 8.RV.1.D
  • 8.RV.1.E
  • 8.RV.1.G

• Writing

  • 8.W.1
  • 8.W.1.A
  • 8.W.1.B
  • 8.W.1.C
  • 8.W.3
  • 8.W.3.A

Virginia ELA Standard: 8.RV.1

Vocabulary Development and Word Analysis

Antagonyms: Dust, Clip, and Left

Dust can mean “remove dust” but also “add more dust!”

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Theta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Eta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Zeta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

Virtue or Vice?

Aristotle noted that positive traits and negative traits are often the same thing, but just in different amounts. The right amount is a virtue, but too much or too little and it’s a vice.

Building Creative Analogies

We’ll take two seemingly unrelated pieces of content (say volcanoes and the human body) and then build analogies to connect the two ideas. In the end, students can create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.

Greekymon

Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.

Common English Words From Other Languages

Bored with typical spelling studies? Let’s dig into the origins of common English words from other languages!