Daily Paragraph Editing Grade 8

Daily Paragraph Editing, grade 8 reproducible teacher’s edition contains everything you need to lead targeted language lessons, including 176 reproducible student activity pages and corresponding teacher support. The teacher’s edition includes the following “extras”: • scope and sequence chart • annotated answer key • assessment rubric • reproducible language handbook • page of reproducible proofreading marks • editing checklist for students Daily Paragraph Editing grade 8 provides 36 weeks of frequent, focused language practice to help your eighth graders learn the conventions of standard English grammar and usage. The concise daily activities are ideal “warm-up” exercises to begin your language arts block and are adaptable for small-group and whole-class instruction. How it works: students apply grade-level language skills to correct a paragraph on Monday through Thursday; when read together, the four paragraphs form a cohesive composition. A writing prompt on Friday relates to the week’s four-paragraph composition and gives students the chance to apply the targeted language conventions. The weekly compositions cover a broad range of expository and narrative writing forms, including: • nonfiction texts on grade-level social studies and science topics • biographies, book reviews, instructions, interviews, journal entries, and letters • fables, fantasy and science fiction, historical fiction, personal narratives, and realistic fiction Daily Paragraph Editing grade 8 covers grade-level skills such as: • Capitalization ◦ quotations, salutations, and closings ◦ incorrect use of capitals ◦ names of people, places, and organizations ◦ titles of books, magazines, movies, and songs • Language Usage ◦ singular and plural forms ◦ verb tenses ◦ correct use of pronouns and adjectival and adverbial forms • Punctuation ◦ apostrophes ◦ commas ◦ periods ◦ quotation marks ◦ colons, semicolons, and more! • Spelling ◦ identifying errors in spelling and in multiple-meaning words. From Evan-Moorn