Tennessee Tools
Grade 8: ELA / Literacy -- Instructional Resources
Units
- Close Reading Task Template
- Unit Map Template (3 text model)
- Unit Map Template (4 text model)
- Unit Map Template (5 text model)
- Sherlock Holmes: Reading like a Detective Unit Text Packet
- User's Guide for Learning from Play Unit
Tasks
- Science 6-8 DNA
- Science 6-8 Earth's Magnetic Field
- Science 6-8 Galapagos Adaptations
- Science 6-8 Genes
- Science 6-8 Kinetic Theory
- Social Studies 6-8 Pope Urban Speech
Summer Training Resources
- Accountable Talk Moves and Functions
- Central Drivers Resource
- Culminating Assessment Resource
- Inquiry-Based Discussion Resource
- Text Structure Identification Tool
- Text-Based Questions Resource
- TNCore Summer 2013 Training - Select Literacy Resources
- ELA Opening
- TDOE TNCore 2013 ELA Summer Training iTunes page
- TNCore Summer 2013 Training - Videos for Grades 4-12
- Phase 2 6-12 Intervention Manual (Classes 1-2)
- Phase 2 6-12 Intervention Manual (Classes 3-4)
- Phase 2 6-12 Intervention Manual (Classes 5-7)
- Phase 2 6-12 Intervention PPT (Classes 1-2)
- Phase 2 6-12 Intervention PPT (Classes 3-4)
- Phase 2 6-12 Intervention PPT (Classes 5-7)
- Speaking and Listening: The Key Role of Evidence
- TNCore Summer 2013 Training - Grades 6-8 ELA
- Writing to Inform and Make Arguments
Additional Resources
- Appendix A to the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts/Literacy
- Appendix B: Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks
- Checklist for Evaluating Question Quality
- Common Core text complexity grade bands table
- Guide to Close Reading
- Guide to Creating Text-Dependent Questions
- Implementing the Common Core State Standards: A Primer on Close Reading of text
- Informational Text Qualitative Measures Rubric
- Literary Text Qualitative Measures Rubric
- Reader and Task Considerations Guide
- Supplement to Appendix A
- Text Placement Template
- Common Core Resources Packet
- ELA 6-8 Amelia Earhart
- ELA 6-8 Dust Bowl
- ELA 6-8 Eleven
- ELA 6-8 Roll of Thunder Ch. 12
- ELA 6-8 Roll of Thunder Ch. 9
- Text Complexity Grades 6-8
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