Grade 8 - Reading Comprehension Unit - Alberta Language - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

Grade 8 - Reading Comprehension Unit - Alberta Language Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 8 Reading Comprehension unit in the 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 workbook, which contains fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Workbook Details:
This resource is part of a program that covers all the general outcomes in the Grade 8 ELA curriculum. In this resource, we cover the specific outcomes related to reading comprehension and text forms. There are 363 pages that cover these specific outcomes.

We’ve included a variety of activities, including independent reading responses, group activities, assignments, experiments, exemplars, and hands-on activities to keep your students engaged.

Included in this resource are the General Outcomes below:

General Outcome 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences.

General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts.

General Outcome 5: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others

In addition, we have included a full-year long range plan that outlines what concepts from the curriculum you will be teaching each week/block.

Some of the concepts 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

Google Lesson Slides

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

- Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Drawing

- Writing

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- Quizzes

- Reflection

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download a copy of this file to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.