Overview - LANGUAGE ARTS GR 8 CURR MASTERY STUDY GRP EDITION
Board-Game-Based Learning System.
Engage middle school students in learning language arts skills with games specifically designed to meet current state and national standards for each grade level. Easy-to use language arts games utilize standard rules and game board configuration, allowing for quick play. Games can be adapted for specific play length, from 5 to 30 minutes or more, depending on the needs of the classroom.
Class-Pack Edition
Includes enough materials for 36 students.
• 25 Sets of 30 standards-based review cards
• 12 Double-sided, laminated game boards
• Comprehensive Teacher Planning & Resource Guide
• Presentation CD featuring interactive review questions for use on a PC, Mac, or projection unit
• Free introductory online subscription to access interactive content, activities, and assessments
Take-Home Edition
Designed to stimulate parental involvement.
• 25 Individually packaged games
• 30 Standards-based review questions with each game
• Double-sided game board
• Materials for four students
• Teacher/Parent Guide
• Presentation CD
• Online subscription
Study-Group Edition
• Double-sided game board
• Blended set of 250 cards representing a cross-section of the topics represented in the Class-Pack Edition
• Materials for four students
• Online subscription
Review CD-ROM
Includes 750 interactive review cards, providing comprehensive coverage of the current national curriculum standards for the grade-level content. Ideal for use in review and assessment preparation by an individual student or for projection on a whiteboard for use by the entire class. Compatible with either Windows or Mac.
Language Arts Grade 8 Topics Covered
• Adding New Words to Our Language
• Capitalization
• Compound & Complex Sentences
• Conducting Interviews & Discussions
• Descriptive Text
• Gerunds, Infinitives & Participles
• Library Skills
• Modifiers-Adverbs
• Persuasive Text
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• Prepositions, Conjunctions & Interjections
• Punctuation
• Reading & the Internet
• Reading-Drama
• Reading-Figurative Language
• Reading Rate
• Reading-Structural Analysis
• Regular & Irregular Verbs
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• Sentences
• Spelling
• Text Features
• Thinking Skills
• Titles & Authors
• Usage
• Using References
• Writing a Research Report
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