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Spectrum Language Arts 2024 Grade 8
Encourage creativity and strengthen communication skills
for your eighth grader with the Spectrum® 8th Grade Language Arts
workbook. This standards-based middle school workbook for 8th
grade students is packed with engaging, open-ended writing activities
and grade-appropriate practice to build a stronger understanding of
essential language arts concepts, including:
• Sentence structure
• Punctuation
• Grammar
• Vocabulary
Aligned to current state standards, this 8th grade English Language Arts (ELA) workbook includes an answer key and a supplemental Writer's Guide to reinforce grammar and language arts concepts.
A long-time favorite for refining and overviewing skills, this language-focused workbook series includes several visual-appealing updates: easy-to-read text, a clean layout with just-enough graphics, and kaleidoscope-colored borders. Chapters explain each skill taught, provide a checklist, definitions, tips, and enrichment ideas. Check your student’s skills using periodic learning checkpoints, chapter reviews, and a final test. Sentences and short reading passages are child-friendly, with content (particularly from Grade 4 up) pulled from multiple subjects that represent our multi-cultural history and population, holidays, etc., but is religiously neutral. See individual descriptions for content highlights.
Each grade level divides skills into 6 chapters, each one beginning with a teacher’s overview of skills, a checklist of key skills, and helpful definitions. Each lesson starts with a brief instruction/overview and finishes with a short student exercise. Levels progress systematically, starting with introductory skills in K and finishing with more nuanced skills such as verb moods, stylistic devices like voice, figures of speech, and word roots by Grade 8. Grade K begins with letter recognition, capitalization, and punctuation. Then it progresses to parts of speech and usage/vocabulary (skills which continue in grades 1-3). Grade 1 begins parts of speech studies. Starting with Grade 4, students annually work on parts of speech, sentence structure, language/vocabulary, and capitalization/punctuation. For books in grades 3-5, a handful of short videos supplement instruction via QR codes. These are 2–3-minute video explanations of grammatical concepts on YouTube®. Answers to lessons, reviews, and tests included. Not reproducible. Includes 192 perforated pages, pb. ~ Ruth
Product Format: | Paperback |
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Brand: | Spectrum |
Grade: | 8 |
ISBN: | 9781483871424 |
Length in Inches: | 10.875 |
Width in Inches: | 8.375 |
Height in Inches: | 0.4375 |
Weight in Pounds: | 1 |