Grade 8 Overall Expectations:
Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience;
- Extraordinary Short Story Writing (Book)
- Write Where You Are (Book)
- Writing Fantastic Fiction (Book)
- The Ultimate Writing Guide for Students (Book)
- Writing to Inform (Book)
- The Writing Process (YouTube)
- How to write a good paragraph (YouTube)
- Plagiarism (YouTube)
- Text structure (YouTube)
- How to write a report (YouTube)
- Why use a library for research (YouTube)
- 50 Unique Journal Prompts (Website)
- Popplet (Website)
Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience;
- Live Writing (Book)
- Writing Stories (Book)
- How Writers Work (Book)
- Types of Analogies (YouTube)
- Active and Passive Voice Rules (YouTube)
- Adjective and adverb phrases (YouTube)
- Determining an author’s tone (YouTube)
- How to make your writing suspenseful (YouTube)
- Book review writing (Website)
- Understatement (Website)
Use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively;
- The 5 Step Essay Writing Process (Book)
- The Art of X-Ray Reading (Book)
- How to Write it (Book)
- Literary Devices and Terms (Website)
- Poetry Institute of Canada & Young Writers (Website)
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary (Website)
- Five tips to improve writing (YouTube)
- How to proofread your paper (YouTube)
Reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.
- The Young Writer’s Companion (Book)
- Complete EnglishSmart (Book)
- Chicago Manual of Style (Book)
- Secret Path (Book)
- Ten Steps to Help you Write Better Essays and Term Papers (Book)
- Book Report Alternative (Website)
- Combining Infographics and Argumentative Writing (Website)
- Twenty-First Century Informational Literacy:(Website)