Reading Literature Whole Year Mini Lessons Grade 8 Print and Digital

Digital & print. No planning needed to teach all the Gr. 8 reading lit standards! Easy-to-use mini lessons have everything you need to make teaching reading (any) literature text a snap! Have more time to work with your students every step of the way! Provide the scaffolding your students need or increase rigor by using with a variety of texts.

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This is what you'll get:

This resource includes:

• 18 Mini Lessons + 5 extra practice lessons
• Digital & print - perfect for blended, distance, or in-person learning!
• 18 standards posters written in student-friendly language
• lesson planning charts
• the short stories "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Last Leaf." You can use them right away to start teaching these skills!
• Additional texts are embedded into several lessons.
• Answer Key using the fiction text in the zip file. This will give you an idea of how to use the mini lessons with other texts. You may wish to choose your own literary texts.
• Teacher checklist that will help you track what lessons your students have completed - great for differentiation!

Each mini lesson includes:

• a manageable portion of the RL standards
• student friendly restatement of the standard
• easy-to-follow explanation of the standard
• A “Demonstrate your Understanding” that directs the student’s task for the day
• Built in assessments -- students can cut off the bottom portion of the page -- or submit the digital slide
• A “Reflection Question” focuses on higher order thinking skills and helps summarize the mini lesson. Ideal "wrap up" or use as a warm up for the next class.

The 18 mini lessons address:

1. What is Literature? Anchor chart
2. Provide an objective Summary
3. Cite textual evidence – providing explicit evidence
4. Cite textual evidence for inferences
5. Determine the central idea of the text (+ extra practice)
6. Analyze theme and central idea over the course of the text
7. Analyze dialogue
8. Analyze incidents
9. Determine meaning of words & phrases
10. Determine figurative & connotative meaning
11. Analyze word choice (+ extra practice)
12. Compare structure of two texts
13. Contrast structure of two texts (+ extra practice)
14. What is irony?
15. Analyze different points of view (+ extra practice)
16. Analyze how a film is adapted from a text
17. Analyze how fiction draws on other works (+ extra practice)
18. Reading complexity - Survey

All of the CCSS Reading Literature for 8th grade addressed!

Reasons to love this workhorse of a resource:

• print & digital means it is ready for any learning environment!
• use to differentiate lessons
• craft literature circle lessons
• create GATE activities
• create small groups, reteach skills, or move students on to more complex texts
• decrease scaffolding and increase independence
• provide additional support by repeating the lessons as often as needed to achieve student independence and increased text complexity
• assess mastery. Collect exit cards that can be used for formative or summative assessments
• can be used with any literary text
• ready to use today

Ready to use today with suggested mentor texts.

You will be able to increase text complexity and student independence by using the mini lesson activities repeatedly throughout the school year with any literary text.

Use this resource again and again with your favorite literature!

You are going to love how much time this saves you!!

Please view the preview to see what this product includes. You will receive the short stories "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Last Leaf" in this resource, but the mini lessons can be used with students independent reading books or book club titles!

The zip file contains five files:

1. print mini lesson file with answer key
2. digital access file
3. "The Cask of Amantillado" - formatted with comprehension questions
4. "The Last Leaf" - formatted with comprehension questions
5. teacher checklists

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