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

Grade 8 - Reading Comprehension Unit - BC Language Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 8 Reading Comprehension unit in the BC 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 covers all learning standards, elaborations, and Big Ideas related to reading strategies, comprehension, text forms, and stories in the grade 8 British Columbia Language (ELA) curriculum. There are 447 pages for students to master the skills they need to meet the requirements of the curriculum.

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 learning standards below:

Story/Text: elements of story, functions and genres, text features, and literary elements and devices.

Reading Strategies: using contextual clues; using phonics and word structure; visualizing; questioning; predicting; previewing text; summarizing; making inferences

Metacognitive Strategies: goal setting, self-evaluating, and reflections

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:

• 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
• 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
• Narrative structure – exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
• Story structures: linear, cyclical, and iterative stories
• Characterization – character traits, decision making, and evolution of characters
• 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 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, hyperbole, simile, metaphor, 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
• Visual/graphics – Illustration styles: realism, cartoon, sketch, outline
• Biographies – Samuel de Champlain, Tom Longboat, Alexander Graham Bell, Joan Chalmers, Norval Morrisseau
• Metacognitive strategies: reading tracking charts and reading goals
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

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