Article of the Week Club, 8th Grade | Nonfiction Reading Passages Middle School
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- The bundle includes all of the Article of the Week Club Units for grades 4-8! You’ll receive 25 nonfiction article + activity packs for each grade level. This is your solution for teaching ALL of the Reading Informational Text Common Core Standards for Grades 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8!125 Nonfiction ArticlePrice $199.99Original Price $608.15Save $408.16
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Article of the Week Club, Grade 8 (8th Grade Nonfiction Articles + Activities)
8th Grade Article of the Week Club is your solution for teaching ALL of the CCSS for Grade 8 Reading Informational Text! You’ll receive 25 nonfiction article + activity packs according to the schedule below. This includes a midterm and final assessment for reading informational text standards. Your students will enjoy practicing all of the common core reading informational text standards with these high-interest informational text passages.
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Each article + activity pack includes these components:
original article written at the 8th grade level
modified version of each article
professional audio recording of each article and modified article
editable version of all activities and assessments
digital Google Slides version of all articles and activities
self-grading Google Forms assessments (3 per article)
Each article + activity pack includes these activities:
Activity 1 - Literal Comprehension Check (multiple choice)
Activity 2 - Literal Comprehension Check (open-ended) (alternate option for Act 1)
Activity 3 - Text Evidence Practice (annotation version)
Activity 4 - Text Evidence Practice (multiple choice version) (alternate option for Act 3)
Activity 5 - Skills focus (focuses on one CCSS skill)
Activity 6 - Integrating Sources Activity
Activity 7 - Skills Test
Activity 8 - Modified Skills Test (alternate option for Act 7)
Articles Currently Available (Download Today!)
8-1: Development of Central Ideas (Walkout!)
8-2: Write an Objective Summary (Colonization & Apartheid in South Africa w/Trevor Noah)
8-4: Analyze Connections in a Text (Do Video Games Cause Violence?)
8-5: Review (The Disturbing History of Human Experimentation - Paired Text for Flowers for Algernon)
8-6: Figurative & Connotative Meaning (The Incredible Life of Louis Zamperini)
8-7: Analyze Word Choice, Allusion, Analogy (Arachnophobia)
8-8: Analyze Text Structure (The Strange Life of Edgar Allan Poe)
8-9: Analyze Text Structure (Maggots as Medicine)
8-10: Analyze Author's Point of View & Purpose (Instagram Influencers)
8-11: Conflicting Viewpoints (Surviving the Holocaust)
8-12: Review (Should You Eat Like a Caveman?)
8-13: MIDTERM Assessment Skills RI.8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6 (Man vs. Nature)
8-14: Evaluate Arguments, Claims, Irrelevant Info (Insects for Dinner?)
8-15: Evaluate Arguments, Claims, Irrelevant Info (9-11 Disease)
8-16: Evaluate Mediums (Text-Video) (The Battle of Mogadishu)
8-17: Conflicting Information & Interpretation RI.8.9 (Raw Cookie Dough)
8-18: Conflicting Information & Interpretation RI.8.9 (Paul Revere Truth Vs. Legend)
8-19: REVIEW of RI.8.7, RI.8.8, and RI.8.9 ('Oumuamua: A Messenger From Afar)
8-20: Citing Text Evidence RI.8.1 (When High School Football Turns Deadly)
8-21: Text Structure RI.8.5 and RL.8.5 w/Paired Poem (Teen Vaping Epidemic)
8-22: Test Prep/Standardized Test Practice
8-23: End of the Year Review ESCAPE ROOM / (Delayed School Start)
8-24: FINAL EXAM (Scandal at SeaWorld)
8-25: PRE ASSESSMENT (Child Labor Then & Now)
For details about which CCSS skills are included in which articles, check out this working Google Doc anytime for updates: https://goo.gl/2XNGQg
Topics are also added to this document as they are decided. Of course, topics and skills are always subject to change if needed.
Nonfiction Article of the Week Clubs are available for 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades:
5th Grade Article of the Week Club