What your child will learn

The following is a list of units your student will work through the year in reading. In eighth grade, students will alternate a unit of study in reading then connect the learning to an unit of study in writing. Click on each title to read a document with main concepts of each reading unit and strategies you can use to support them at home. For identification of which unit your child is working in, contact your child's school or teacher.

• Creating Agency and Independence: Launching the Reader's/Writer's Workshop
• Characterization and Author's Craft
• Historical Fiction Book Clubs
• Argument Reading: Critical Nonfiction Research Across Text Sets
• Reading for High School: Applying Strategies to Challenging Texts

Supporting your child

n addition to activities suggested in the documents above here are additional resources as well interactive games on the internet that can support further development.

i17 Ways to Keep Your Middle Schooler Turning the Pages is an article with several strategies to engage and support your 8th grade reader. Click here to read the article.

For interactive games and resources, click on an image below to access an interactive game to support specific to skills essential to mastery of concepts in eighth grade.

Additional Resources