Language Arts

Strong writing skills help children soar! Clear, concise communication benefits kids throughout school and into adulthood. Spectrum® Writing for grade 8 guides blossoming writers through the writing, proofreading, and editing process to create a strong foundation essential for school success.

Spectrum Writing for grade 8 guides students through each step of the writing process as they write sentences, personal stories, descriptions, how-to instructions, reports, opinions, and more. Spectrum Writing workbooks guide students as they write for a variety of purposes, including writing to tell a story, writing to provide information, and writing to state an opinion. Lessons support current state standards. Step-by-step instructions help with planning, drafting, revising, proofreading, and sharing writing. A Writer's Handbook reinforces grammar and language skills, and a complete Answer Key is included. Engaging, open-ended writing projects combined with standards-based learning make these workbooks an essential resource for school success.

Features:

• Answer Key

• Exercises designed to target ALL reading standards as required by TEKS
• Critical thinking and reading analysis lessons aligned to the more rigorous new STAAR exams
• Skill-building guided warm-ups Practice exams

Tackle the new tests with warm-ups and practice tests that prepare students for the types of questions and passages they'll see in the new exams, including: strategies that strengthen comprehension and critical thinking skills; longer practice tests that build stamina and enable teachers to monitor and assess progress; and new question formats including 2-part questions, short answer, checklists with multiple correct answers, multiple choice, and more.

• Exercises designed to target ALL reading standards as required by TEKS
• Critical thinking and reading analysis lessons aligned to the more rigorous new STAAR exams
• Skill-building guided warm-ups Practice exams

Tackle the new tests with warm-ups and practice tests that prepare students for the types of questions and passages they'll see in the new exams, including: strategies that strengthen comprehension and critical thinking skills; longer practice tests that build stamina and enable teachers to monitor and assess progress; and new question formats including 2-part questions, short answer, checklists with multiple correct answers, multiple choice, and more.

• Exercises designed to target ALL reading standards as required by TEKS
• Critical thinking and reading analysis lessons aligned to the more rigorous new STAAR exams
• Skill-building guided warm-ups Practice exams

Tackle the new tests with warm-ups and practice tests that prepare students for the types of questions and passages they'll see in the new exams, including: strategies that strengthen comprehension and critical thinking skills; longer practice tests that build stamina and enable teachers to monitor and assess progress; and new question formats including 2-part questions, short answer, checklists with multiple correct answers, multiple choice, and more.

• Exercises designed to target ALL reading standards as required by TEKS
• Critical thinking and reading analysis lessons aligned to the more rigorous new STAAR exams
• Skill-building guided warm-ups Practice exams

Tackle the new tests with warm-ups and practice tests that prepare students for the types of questions and passages they'll see in the new exams, including: strategies that strengthen comprehension and critical thinking skills; longer practice tests that build stamina and enable teachers to monitor and assess progress; and new question formats including 2-part questions, short answer, checklists with multiple correct answers, multiple choice, and more.

• Exercises designed to target ALL reading standards as required by TEKS
• Critical thinking and reading analysis lessons aligned to the more rigorous new STAAR exams
• Skill-building guided warm-ups Practice exams

Tackle the new tests with warm-ups and practice tests that prepare students for the types of questions and passages they'll see in the new exams, including: strategies that strengthen comprehension and critical thinking skills; longer practice tests that build stamina and enable teachers to monitor and assess progress; and new question formats including 2-part questions, short answer, checklists with multiple correct answers, multiple choice, and more.

Enhance learning with daily mini-activities in this resource for language arts teachers.

The Synonyms & Antonyms Quick Starts workbook helps students to develop verbal proficiency by working with antonyms and synonyms that are adjectives, verbs, and much more. Activities include fill-in-the-blank, short answer, true/false, matching, identifying the correct synonyms and antonyms, word searches, and sentence writing practice. Each page features two to four quick starts that can be cut apart and used separately. The entire page may also be used as a whole-class or individual assignment.

The Quick Starts Series provides students in grades 4 through 8+ with quick review activities in science, math, language arts, and social studies. The activities provide students with a quick start for the day's lesson and help students build and maintain a powerful domain-specific vocabulary. Each book is correlated to current state, national, and provincial standards.

Guided reading experts, Jan Richardson and Michéle Dufresne, provide teachers with clear, concise, and practical instructions and resources for planning and teaching developmentally appropriate word study and phonics lessons. Learn how students solve words, how to assess what students know and need to learn next, and what sequence, materials, and activities to use to help students become proficient word solvers and independent readers.

• Works with the familiar Next Step Forward lesson plan framework from Richardson"s best-selling Next Step Forward in Guided Reading.
• Uses a gradual release of responsibility approach that guides students to independent word solving.
• Introduces readers to not just one approach to phonics and word study-but six.