Aligned with 8.RL.4: This lesson helps students meet 8.RL.4 in ELA by focusing on understanding character traits and their impact on the story. Understanding Character Traits and Their Impact on the Story Objective: Students will be able to describe how a character’s traits influence the story’s events and outcomes by analyzing a short story. Learning…

Aligned with 8.RL.3: This lesson helps students meet 8.RL.3 in ELA by focusing on understanding characters, setting, and plot in stories. Understanding Characters, Setting, and Plot in Stories Objective: Students will be able to describe how characters, setting, and plot interact in a story to deepen their understanding of the text. Learning Objectives Identify the…

Aligned with 8.RL.2: This lesson helps students meet 8.RL.2 in ELA by focusing on understanding key ideas and details in stories. Understanding Key Ideas and Details in Stories Objective: By the end of this lesson, the student will be able to identify the main idea and supporting details of a story and explain how they…

Aligned with 8.RL.10: This lesson helps students meet 8.RL.10 in ELA by focusing on understanding and comparing literary texts. Understanding and Comparing Literary Texts Objective: Students will be able to read and comprehend two different literary texts independently and explain how they are similar and different in terms of themes, settings, and characters. Learning Objectives…

Aligned with 8.RL.1: This lesson helps students meet 8.RL.1 in ELA by focusing on understanding key ideas and details in literature. Understanding Key Ideas and Details in Literature Objective: Students will be able to ask and answer questions about key details in a text to demonstrate understanding of the story, characters, and events. Learning Objectives…

Aligned with 8.RI.9: This lesson helps students meet 8.RI.9 in Math by focusing on understanding and comparing information from two texts. Understanding and Comparing Information from Two Texts Objective: Students will learn how to compare and contrast information presented in two different texts on the same topic, identifying similarities and differences in key details. Learning…

Aligned with 8.RI.8: This lesson helps students meet 8.RI.8 in Math by focusing on understanding key ideas in informational texts. Understanding Key Ideas in Informational Texts Objective: Students will learn to identify and explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in an informational text. Learning Objectives Understand what an author’s…

Aligned with 8.RI.7: This lesson helps students meet 8.RI.7 in Math by focusing on understanding text features to locate information. Understanding Text Features to Locate Information Objective: Students will learn how to use text features such as headings, subheadings, captions, and diagrams to locate key information in a nonfiction text. Learning Objectives Identify different text…

Aligned with 8.RI.6: This lesson helps students meet 8.RI.6 in Math by focusing on understanding key ideas and details in informational texts. Understanding Key Ideas and Details in Informational Texts Objective: Students will learn to identify the main idea of a text and explain how specific details support that main idea, meeting the Common Core…

Aligned with 8.RI.5: This lesson helps students meet 8.RI.5 in Math by focusing on understanding key ideas in informational texts. Understanding Key Ideas in Informational Texts Objective: Students will learn how to identify and explain the relationships between ideas in an informational text by using examples and details from the text. Learning Objectives Identify key…