Language Arts Course for Grade 8
Credits: 1
Course Length
2 Semesters
8th Grade Language Arts Fundamentals reinforces reading comprehension skills by teaching students context clues and sequencing.
Students also develop an understanding of sentence structure, providing hands‐on experience with conjunctions, transitions, clauses, and common sentence errors. The course also covers note-taking skills.
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Overview of Concepts
- STRATEGIES FOR READING AND WRITING
- MECHANICS AND THE SENTENCE
- HISTORY OF LANGUAGE AND MODERN GRAMMAR
- EXPOSITION: THE FORMAL ESSAY
- PERSUASION
- THE POWER OF WORDS
- SHORT STORIES
- NONFICTION LITERATURE
- FUNCTIONAL TEXTS AND READING STRATEGIES
- SAMPLING LITERATURE