Reading Comprehension, Grade 8
Workbook Features:
• Ages 13+, Grade 8
• 64 pages, about 8 ½ inches x 11 inches
• Offers engaging activities to develop reading comprehension skills
• Includes nonfiction passages, practice assessments, and more
• Answer key and instructional resources included

Essential Reading Skills: The Mark Twain Reading Comprehension Workbook helps eighth graders students reinforce their reading comprehension skills by reading passages from a variety of topics and subjects.

What’s Included: This workbook contains versatile reading passages, before- and after-reading activities, differentiated guides, and vocabulary exercises to develop reading comprehension skills.

How It Works: Students read different passages covering poetry, nonfiction, speeches, articles, and more, and answer before- and after-reading questions. Assessments focus on text recall, vocabulary, and more to enhance language arts skills.

Working Together: Parents love using the workbook for added practice from home, and teachers love to incorporate it into hands-on reading lessons during class. An answer key is included to help track student progress.

Why Mark Twain Media: Designed by leading educators, Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and resources in a wide range of subjects for middle- and upper-grade classroom success.

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Reading Comprehension, Grade 8
Workbook Features:
• Ages 13+, Grade 8
• 64 pages, about 8 ½ inches x 11 inches
• Offers engaging activities to develop reading comprehension skills
• Includes nonfiction passages, practice assessments, and more
• Answer key and instructional resources included

Essential Reading Skills: The Mark Twain Reading Comprehension Workbook helps eighth graders students reinforce their reading comprehension skills by reading passages from a variety of topics and subjects.

What’s Included: This workbook contains versatile reading passages, before- and after-reading activities, differentiated guides, and vocabulary exercises to develop reading comprehension skills.

How It Works: Students read different passages covering poetry, nonfiction, speeches, articles, and more, and answer before- and after-reading questions. Assessments focus on text recall, vocabulary, and more to enhance language arts skills.

Working Together: Parents love using the workbook for added practice from home, and teachers love to incorporate it into hands-on reading lessons during class. An answer key is included to help track student progress.

Why Mark Twain Media: Designed by leading educators, Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and resources in a wide range of subjects for middle- and upper-grade classroom success.

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Reading Comprehension, Grade 8

Reading Comprehension, Grade 8

Reading Comprehension, Grade 8

Reading Comprehension, Grade 8

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Overview

Workbook Features:
• Ages 13+, Grade 8
• 64 pages, about 8 ½ inches x 11 inches
• Offers engaging activities to develop reading comprehension skills
• Includes nonfiction passages, practice assessments, and more
• Answer key and instructional resources included

Essential Reading Skills: The Mark Twain Reading Comprehension Workbook helps eighth graders students reinforce their reading comprehension skills by reading passages from a variety of topics and subjects.

What’s Included: This workbook contains versatile reading passages, before- and after-reading activities, differentiated guides, and vocabulary exercises to develop reading comprehension skills.

How It Works: Students read different passages covering poetry, nonfiction, speeches, articles, and more, and answer before- and after-reading questions. Assessments focus on text recall, vocabulary, and more to enhance language arts skills.

Working Together: Parents love using the workbook for added practice from home, and teachers love to incorporate it into hands-on reading lessons during class. An answer key is included to help track student progress.

Why Mark Twain Media: Designed by leading educators, Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and resources in a wide range of subjects for middle- and upper-grade classroom success.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781622238675
Publisher: Mark Twain Media
Publication date: 02/14/2022
Pages: 64
Product dimensions: 8.20(w) x 10.50(h) x (d)
Age Range: 13 - 14 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Test-Taking Tips

Keys to Success 2

Ten Strategies for Success 3

Ten Strategies for Poetry Comprehension/Poetry Terms to Know 4

Technology Skills Self-Assessment 5

Instructional Resources

Reading Comprehension 6

Making Inferences 7

Textual Evidence 8

Theme 9

Central Idea 10

Summary 11

Word Meaning 12

Tone 13

Author's Purpose 14

Point of View 15

Organizational Text Structures 16

Structure of Poetry 17

Practice Assessments

Literature

Novel: The Call of the Wild by Jack London (adapted) 18

Poem: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (aka "Daffodils") by William Wordsworth 24

Drama: Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (adapted) 27

Informational Text

Speech: "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry 34

Autobiography: Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington 39

Science Article: "Pacific Salmon" (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Digital Library) 43

Newspaper Article: "The Rights of Women" by Frederick Douglass 47

Flyer (Functional Text): "10th Annual Statewide Middle School Science Fair" 51

Paired Text

"Grand Commander of the Union Armies" by William H. Mace (Secondary Source) 54

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant (Primary Source) 56

Answer Keys 60

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