Eighth Grade Teacher Resources for Common Core

1. Anchor Chart - Convince me - Scaffolding to help writers with persuasive essays.
2. Anchor Chart - Persuasive Essay Organization
3. Anchor Chart - Primary Source Analysis tool.
4. Anchor Chart - Common Core Writing Transitional Words Anchor Charts
5. Anchor Chart - Nonfiction Convention Scavenger Hunt
6. Anchor Chart - Transitional Words
7. Annolighting a Text - "Annolighting" a text combines effective highlighting with marginal annotations that help to explain the highlighted words and phrases.
8. Close Reading - Videos and lesson plans
9. Close Reading - Article that breaks down the close reading method.
10. Close Reading - English Language Arts /Literacy Units empower students with a critical reading and writing skill at the heart of the Common Core.
11. Close Reading -Close Read Complex Text, and Annotate
12. Convince Me! - worksheet
13. Free ELA CCSS activities and resources - Each concept has its own page of resources for that specific topic.
14. Keyboarding Standards - PDF file that states what skills are suitable for 8th grade students.
15. Latice Multiplication - A fun and easy way to multiply bigger numbers.
16. Free Interactive Vocabulary Building games - Use these resources to build up vocabulary skills. All are interactive fun games to play.
17. I CAN Statements - Common Core - ELA - PDF file
18. I CAN Statements - Common Core - ELA
19. I CAN Statements - Common Core - Math
20. I CAN Statements - Common Core - Math
21. Into the Book - Excellent site to review the basic reading strategies; a game for each concept students can do by themselves. Fun, interactive learning tool.
22. Middle School Test Review Game Ideas - interactive activity allows students to practice answering questions similar to those they will encounter on the test
23. Non-fiction Scavenger Hunt Worksheet - Print out this Google docs worksheet to make an exciting scavenger hunt for your students.
24. Printable Math Worksheets - CCSS math worksheets labled with specific standards so finding just the correct one will be easy for teachers.
25. Reading Closely for Textual Details - English Language Arts /Literacy Units to empower students with a critical reading and writing skill that is at the heart of the Common Core.
26. Math Tasks - Use these math tasks to practice complex word problems.
27. Vocabulary Twister - A fun way to practice vocabulary.