8th Grade ELA Mega Bundle ~ Everything Needed to Teach 8th Grade ELA

Teach 8th Grade ELA with this bundle! This 8th Grade ELA Mega Bundle contains a ton of resources that you can use immediately to teach 8th grade ELA! By buying the bundle, you save a ton of money! If you bought each teaching unit included in this bundle, it would cost over $400!

It includes all of our best resources including our bell ringers, vocabulary words of the week bundle, huge book club resource, literacy centers, and much more!

The following are included in this bundle:

How to Use This Mega Bundle ~ How We Fit It All In - This resource gives our best advice on classroom management and tells you how we fit everything into our school year. It breaks down what we do each 9 weeks.

The Best Middle School ELA Back to School Bundle

This resource will provide you with back to school forms, ideas, and activities for the first week of school. Links are provided in this resource for activities in Google Slides format.

Daily Grammar Minutes With Mentor Sentences Use this as a bell ringer or as mini lessons! This resource includes daily grammar lessons and uses mentor sentences from young adult novels to help students understand complex grammar standards and become better writers! This spiraling method of teaching grammar works, and it will help you “fit grammar in” to your existing curriculum! In addition to the printable pages, links are provided for the Google Ready lessons, making this resource perfect for in-person or distance learning!

Grammar Lesson of the Week This resource is both printable and digital and provides a fun and engaging way to teach grammar in 34 weeks. Each unit of study includes a teaching page with tips and tricks, a practice page, and a quiz. In addition to the printable pages, links are provided for the Google Ready lessons, making this resource perfect for in-person or distance learning!

Core Chomp! One of our very best resources, this bell ringer provides three to four questions a day based on Common Core Standards. This resource is printable, but now links to a Google Slides version is included, so you can seamlessly send each Chomp to your students through Google Classroom! In addition to the printable pages, links are provided for the Google Ready lessons, making this resource perfect for in-person or distance learning!

Mentor Sentences ~ Sentences for Middle School Students to Mimic resource provides mentor sentences to guide your students as they become more confident and skilled writers. There are 90 lessons that can be used as bell ringers, writing mini lessons, a part of your literacy centers, or homework. Two separate versions are included, the printable one and the Google ready one, making this perfect for in-person or distance learning!

8th Grade Vocabulary Words of the Week This resource is a complete vocabulary curriculum for 8th grade ELA. In addition to the printable pages, links are provided for the Google Ready lessons, making this resource perfect for in-person or distance learning!

Middle School Book Clubs Complete Library of Activities - Everything you need to hold literature circles, or as we call them, book clubs, in your classroom! This resource is a gold mine for teachers as it includes lots of book project ideas, literature circle preparation and discussion forms, and comprehension checks, activities, and final tests for 24 popular young adult novels!

At the Root of It All ~ A Spiraling Affixes/Roots Curriculum A six week unit to help teach your students important roots and affixes. All six units include a weekly list of 18 roots/affixes, interactive notebook foldable activity, practice pages, and tests. Links to the tests in Google Forms format are included!

Literacy Centers for Middle School ELA 10 centers are included! Use these during guided reading, as early finish work, or for fun Fridays!

Story Elements Digital Notebook This resource is to be used with Google Classroom and provides a fun, hands-on approach to teaching literary elements like setting, plot, and theme. This resource is perfect for in-person or distance learning!

Independent Story Elements Review - This resource is the same as the Story Elements Digital Notebook, but it is set up so that it can be completely done independently by the students. It's perfect for distance learning or for a time when you need students to work on something without you having to explain things.

Analyze the Development of Theme A teaching Unit to teach students this tough standard

Objective Summary A teaching Unit to teach students how to write an objective summary

Nonfiction Text Structure Unit

Nonfiction Author’s Purpose Resource

Ethos, Logos, Pathos Introduction Handouts

Complete novel units are included for the following novels:

The Outsiders Novel Unit - Printable and includes links to the activities in Google Slides and the tests in Google Forms!

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - Printable and includes links to the activities in Google Slides and the tests in Google Forms!

Soldier’s Heart Novel Unit

Inside Out and Back Again Novel Unit

Common Core based short story units are included for the following stories or plays:

After Twenty Years

Hearts and Hands

The following writing resources are also included in this bundle:

Text Dependent Analysis ~ Teach It! Practice It! Have Your Students Master It!

Text Dependent Analysis Practice Packets Bundle

Active and Passive Voice Review Game - This PowerPoint game is perfect to play with your class to review this 8th grade standard, and your students will love it!

Argue Your Point Argumentative Writing Prompts and Practice

Weak Words Dead and Gone - a fun activity to teach word choice

Writing a Children’s Book ~ An Inquiry Project

Twilight Zone Bundle Activities to accompany three episodes of The Twilight Zone

The following holiday activities are included:

Thanksgiving Short Story Thanksgiving Short Story with standards-based activities

Christmas Short Story Christmas Short Story with standards-based activities *Both of these are printable and have links to the activities in Google Slides

Here's the best part: Every summer, we update this resource, and add new products! Anything we improve or add will be yours free at no extra cost!