Grade 8 - Writing Unit - Manitoba Language - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

Grade 8 - Writing Unit - Manitoba Language Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 8 Writing unit in the Manitoba 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 441-page resource covers all elements, grade band descriptors, and elaborations related to writing in the Manitoba Language Curriculum (ELA).

There are 441 activity sheets that are aligned to cover the elaborations in the Manitoba Language Curriculum. Included are 10 blocks of content, each covering a different text form. Within each block, the elements, descriptors, and elaborations are taught.

This is a language program developed by a language teacher. We have included exemplars/mentor texts for students to use to formulate success criteria so they can improve their writing quality. Moreover, we’ve scaffolded the skills involved with producing quality writing to ensure all students can progress.

Included in this resource are the elaborations within the elements below:

Language as Sense Making – writing many different text forms, including letters, how-to-guides, reports, stories, etc.

Language as System – writing with proper use of conventions, text features, and structure

Language as Exploration and Design – research skills, constructive feedback, working collaboratively

Language as Power and Agency - expressing opinions, other points of view/perspectives, justice, equity, fairness

Some of the concepts 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
• Narrative structure – exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
• Characterization – creating funny, mysterious, fantasy, and adventurous characters
• Character development – describe how characters change over time due to big events
• Writing personal narratives that showcase their identity
• Writing idioms, analogies, imagery, hyperbole, metaphors, and similes
• Main and minor characters – protagonists and antagonists
• Story types – cyclical stories, iterative stories, and linear stories
• Analyzing quality stories – building success criteria
• Using quotations in narrative writing – dialogue
• 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
• 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
• Reconstructing texts – translating texts from one form to another – e.g., letter to news report, infographic to story
• Cursive writing package/booklet
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

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