This 8th grade unit highlights main events of the Civil Rights Movement and navigates to the life of Jackie Robinson and watching the movie 42.
This resource accompanies our Rethink 8th Grade ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.
This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 8th grade ELA content.
Students will create a podcast exploring a topic of interest to them following the NYT framework. Students will enter the NYT competition (typically held in April/May).
Students will determine the most important symbol or a theme in a text, then they will use TinkerCad program to create a 3D representation of that symbol/theme.
Using Google Tour Creator, students will create virtual tours showcasing their understanding of certain aspects of an anchor text.
In this interactive, students click on a letter to see it in uppercase and lowercase. They click on the letter again to hear its sound and words associated with that sound.
This Internet fact finding activity is as easy A-B-C! Students will get an introduction to safe search engines, including MeL, (Michigan e-Library.org), to find ways to do a basic online search safely for information by simply using the letters of the alphabet.
Students will read a text and then they will demonstrate their new vocabulary knowledge through appropriate use of the words in context and with accompanying illustrations. They will create of an ABC book through individual and small-group activities. Students will take an active role in their learning by identifying the content area vocabulary they want to research. This lesson can be implemented in any content classroom.
In this activity students identify the different relationships that can be found in a community and create a class Community ABC Book.
Students will research and report on a school system of a foreign country that they choose based on a typical school lunch. Near the end of Unit 6 teachers will introduce students to multiple cultures by showing them typical school lunches (see website under technology accessories). Students will base their decision of what country’s school system to look into solely on the lunch example.
Students go on a hunt to find a word for each letter of the alphabet from a free online picture dictionary.
After classroom discussions and activities to exemplify positive relationships through fair play and friendship, the higher level students in the class will each make their own ABC books to illustrate many ways to play fairly and how to treat friends. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.
This resource provides a lesson designed to utilze letter and wordplay as students create a poem as a class. Afterwards, students will work independently to draft a word poem of their own.
Looking for a super fun way to master Dolch sight words? Try ABCya’s Dolch Sight Word Bingo! Select a word group, and try getting BINGO by recognizing the correct sight word. Can you collect all 20 Bingo Bugs?
ABCya Storymaker is a fun and easy way for children to create and print their own stories. Kids can write a simple narrative or a thrilling mystery, and then bring their words to life with custom illustrations. With just a few clicks, young authors can save or print their work, too!
ADDING TEXT REMIX of Remix: Election Day: Our Civic Duty & Why It Matters: Grade 3-5
Students will build background and show understanding about government elections at the local, state, and national levels in the United States.
Students will write, revise, and edit an informational piece to demonstrate mastery of the topic of elections incorporating key academic content vocabulary.
Students will create a PPT with a teacher's model to demonstrate understanding and mastery of key content area vocabulary words.
Students will complete activities during independent work time or literacy stations. Provides a QR code for students to listen to stories (2 non-fiction and 1 fiction) about elections. After they listen to the stories they choose one of the non-fiction texts to write facts about, find the main idea and key details, and define new words
In this lesson, students continue to build their reading skills by asking questions and reading sections of the text, Everything You Need to Know about Frogs and Other Slippery Creatures. Students continue to build their general knowledge about frogs by reading selections about life cycle, skin, and habitat.
In this lesson, students build their reading skills by asking questions and reading sections of the text, Everything You Need to Know about Frogs and Other Slippery Creatures. Students build their general knowledge about frogs by reading selections about life cycle, skin, and habitat.
In this lesson, students continue to build their reading skills by asking questions and reading sections of the text, Everything You Need to Know about Frogs and Other Slippery Creatures. Students continue to build their general knowledge about frogs by reading selections about life cycle, skin, and habitat.