Grade 8 - Alberta Language - Lessons/Workbook Mega Bundle

This mega bundle provides everything you need to teach all the units in the Grade 8 Alberta Language Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbooks, which contain fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Writing Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Types of text forms – when to use each one (narratives, letters/emails, persuasive, comic strips, reports, etc.)
• Experiment – writing with planning time versus writing without planning time (no brainstorming)
• Activity – Voice in Music
• Personal voice in writing
• Revising writing – adding words/phrases, varying sentence variety, and word choice
• How to write a perfect paragraph – topic sentence (hook), body (supporting details), conclusion
• Essay writing – how to write and identify a thesis statement
• Using paragraph structures to demonstrate unity and coherence
• Writing a 5-paragraph essay
• Formal versus informal letter writing – voice in our writing
• Narrative writing – beginning, middle, end
• Writing idioms, analogies, metaphors, and similes
• Main and minor characters – protagonists and antagonists
• Analyzing quality stories – building success criteria
• Using quotations in narrative writing – dialogue
• Activity – Story Swap Revision
• Activity – Being Persuasive: Debate
• Understanding bias in persuasive writing
• Assignment – advertising a new invention
• Expository text forms – reports, lists, problem/solution report, compare/contrast essay, cause and effect essay
• Writing a How-To-Guide
• Synthesizing multiple reports
• Writing a report – circulatory system and water bodies
• How to research effectively – trustworthy sources, using keywords
• Activity – Online Treasure Hunt
• Writing a problem/solution report
• Determining solutions to problems
• Types of poems – Haiku, Limerick, Rhyming Poems, Acrostic Poems
• Assignment – writing a poetry children’s book
• Comic strips – onomatopoeia and illustrating graphic texts
• Assignment - creating an online comic strip
• Biographies – cross curricular connections: Marie Curie, John A. Macdonald, and Tecumseh
• How to cite where we find research – bibliography
• Activity – Partner Biography/Bibliography Assignment
• Cursive writing package/booklet
• Answer pages for all activities

Reading Comprehension Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Personal interests in specific genres
• How techniques like word choice, fonts, and layouts affect texts
• What is reading comprehension? What strategies work for me?
• Before reading: comprehension strategies – activating prior knowledge and reasons for reading
• During reading: comprehension strategies – questioning, making connections, inferences, predictions, visualizing
• After reading: comprehension strategies – summarizing, inferences, synthesizing, evaluating, visualizing
• Indigenous Storywork – 7 Principles: respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, synergy
• Cross-curricular connections – text forms related to themes in science and social studies (cells, water systems, etc.)
• Adjusting reading rates: Learning to read at different speeds based on the text's difficulty
• Bias in letter writing, book reviews, and in persuasive writing
• Making inferences from letter writing
• Narratives – finding examples of literary devices: irony, allusion, and satire
• Analyzing first-person, second-person, and third-person narratives
• Analyze the decision making of characters
• Drama stories – round and flat characters
• Sequencing a narrative with multiple plots – rearranging plot events
• Determining the causes and effects in narratives
• Implicit versus explicit evidence in persuasive texts
• Expository texts – informational reports and how-to-guides
• Text patterns in cause-and-effect essays, problem-and-solution reports, five-paragraph essays, compare and contrast essays
• Text patterns in blog posts
• Synthesizing multiple reports and essays
• Scanning texts looking for specific information for research
• Study strategy: read, recite, and review
• Five paragraph essays – text patterns and features
• Problem and solution letters
• Identifying thesis statements found in reports and essays
• Identifying literary devices in poetry – irony, allusion, and satire
• Analyzing poems – haiku, limerick, acrostic, cinquain, and rhyming poetry
• Studying poetry written by Indigenous authors
• Explicit and implicit perspectives in book reviews
• Activity – detecting bias in online reviews
• Book review – choose favourite author and compare the texts they have written
• Graphic texts – timelines, memes, comics, infographics, maps
• Biographies – Samuel de Champlain, Tom Longboat, Alexander Graham Bell, Joan Chalmers, Norval Morrisseau
• Answer pages for all activities

Language Conventions and Vocabulary Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Suffixes: -ing, -ly, -able, -less, -ment, -ful, -ness, -tion, -ous, -y, -ize, -ship and many more
• Prefixes: un-, re-, dis-, pre-, ex-, in-, non-, sub-, inter-, anti-, mis-, super-, and many more
• Sentence Essentials: Identifying Fragments, Understanding Simple Sentence Construction
• Grammar Foundations: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, and Their Roles
• Sentence Expansion: Building Complex Sentences, Avoiding Run-ons
• Advanced Syntax: Crafting Compound-Complex Sentences for Clarity
• Verb Varieties: Mastering "To Be," Linking, and Perfect Tense Forms
• Verb Tenses: Exploring Past, Present, and Future for Strong Writing
• Commands and Questions: Crafting Imperatives and Exploring Interrogatives
• Pronouns in Depth: Types, Roles, and Case Usage
• Enhancing Descriptions: Using Adjectives and Adverbs Effectively
• Gerunds and Infinitives: Expanding Writing with Verbal Nouns
• Voice in Writing: Active Versus Passive Voice, Choosing Effectively
• Noun Functions: Exploring Predicate Nouns and Adjectives in Sentences
• Use Correct Pronoun–Antecedent Agreement In Own Writing
• Phrase Building: Using Adverbial and Prepositional Phrases for Detail
• Using Hyphens – Break Words at the End of Lines and to Make New Words From Two Unrelated Words
• Dialogue Dynamics: Capitalization and Punctuation for Conversations
• Advanced Punctuation: Mastering Colons, Semicolons, Ellipses for Effect
• Using Dashes and Hyphens in Writing
• Use Parentheses Appropriately In Own Writing
• Vocabulary Development: Using Thesaurus for Word Choice and Variety
• Morphology Mastery: Identifying Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots in Words
• Comprehension Techniques: Strategies for Understanding and Analyzing Texts (Reader’s Theatre)
• Expressive Reading: Performance Techniques for Engaging Audiences
• Spelling Variants – Canadian versus American Spelling
• Genre-Specific Writing: Tailoring Style for Different Writing Forms
• Reading with Expression: Developing Fluency, Tone, and Pacing
• Spelling Strategies: Tackling Commonly Misspelled Words and Patterns
• Grammar Proficiency: Ensuring Clear and Correct Communication
• Weekly quizzes (30 different assessments)
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 8 - Google Lesson Slides - Alberta Language Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Grade 8, Alberta Language Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals
- Discussion Questions

- Polls/Surveys

- Picture Prompts

- Jokes and Riddles

- Relevant Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Sorting

- Polls/Surveys and Graphing

- Embedded YouTube Videos

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- 3-2-1 Reflections

- One Word Reflections

- Act It Out!

- Quick Draw

- One Sentence Summary

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download copies of the Google Slides for the three different units to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.