Daily Paragraph Editing, Grade 8 - Teacher's Edition, E-book

Daily Paragraph Editing, grade 8 teacher’s edition standard e-book contains 176 pages of student activities and corresponding teacher support that you can print or project onto a whiteboard or other surface. The content is the same as the print version of this book; however, the standard e-book gives you added benefits such as the ability to:

• perform read-alouds
• rotate pages
• enlarge or adjust the text for multiple viewing options
• search for key words or phrases
• print just what you need—saving paper and space on your bookshelf!

The teacher’s edition standard e-book, like the print version, 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