8th Grade

  Engage and inspire students to read and comprehend a variety of social studies materials focused on American history! Students will explore 15 different social studies texts with topics ranging from the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War...

Engage and motivate students as they discover the unique history of America's most treasured symbols and explore topics such as the US Constitution, the Statue of Liberty, the US Flag, national parks, memorials, patriotic songs, and more...

Engage and inspire students to read and comprehend a variety of social studies materials focused on 20th-Century History! Students will explore 15 different social studies texts with topics such as the Industrial Revolution, World Wars I and II,...

Engage and inspire students to read and comprehend a variety of social studies materials focused on World Culture! Students will explore 15 different social studies texts with topics such as Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient China, the Roman...

Focus on the teaching and learning of mathematics through the use of games. Based on current research and correlated to the Common Core and other state standards, this resource provides both teachers and students with rich...

Mathematical Discourse: Let the Kids Talk! provides teachers with the tools they need to facilitate mathematical discourse in the 21st century classroom and create opportunities for students to think...

This essential classroom resource provides educators with a solid foundation in teaching persuasive writing. Grades 6-8 students will learn persuasive writing techniques and strategies on how to research topics, form...

Orchestrating School Change: Transforming Your Leadership provides administrators and educational leaders the tools they need to successfully orchestrate change within a school or district. Dr. Mike Murphy provides strong research...

Support reading comprehension through analyzing poems written in engaging student voices for poetic devices, word choice, and meaning. Coauthored by renowned fluency expert Timothy Rasinski, this resource allows students to read, perform,...

Help your students expand their vocabularies and deepen word knowledge with Practice with Prefixes. This standards-based resource presents the most frequently encountered Latin and Greek prefixes in a way that is easy to implement...

With speeches, poems, and letters, including The Wedding of Pocahontas and an excerpt from The Federalist Papers, this book uses primary sources and activities to help teach important fluency strategies.Developed by Dr. Timothy Rasinski, these...

Featuring letters, speeches, songs, and poems, including Waiting for the Pony Express and Grant's Memoirs, this book uses primary sources and activities to help teach important fluency strategies in the social studies classroom.Students will discover...