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Free 8th grade ebooks
E-Book Teaching A Struggling Reader: One Mom's Experience With Dyslexia
There are a lot of children (and adults) who struggle with reading. Some are helped by their schools, some are not.In this short booklet, Pamela Brookes shares some of the basic information she wishes she'd had when she was first trying to figure out how to help her child learn to read. Teaching A Struggling Reader: One Mom's Experience with Dyslexia is filled with links to informational and product resources for parents or teachers. It is geared to people who want to educate themselves in the m
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Greek Roots (-crat/-cracy and -arch/-archy)
Greek Roots are used in this lesson to help students break down words that are related to government systems. Students will use the chart and word bank to break down these roots and then the teacher can use the example words to help with building vocabulary "root word" knowledge.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
My book of irregular verbs
An audio book of irregular English verbs. They have been grouped into three categories according to their spelling and inside these categories they have been grouped by pronunciation when possible. This book can be used by any ESL learner, but it has been created with my Spanish students (11-13 years old) in mind, that's why I have included the Spanish translation.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Story of Nautilus: Science, Math and Myth
Behold the humble nautilus. Just about a foot in diameter, it is a slow bottom-dweller with short tentacles that moves through the water with an unsteady wobble. It’s also 500 million years old and, in its day, was the best and brightest, using its newly evolved depth control to lay waste to acre after acre of scuttling crustacean prey.
We became interested in it here at Nautilus because, well, we stole its name. But also because (for a mollusk) it represents a remarkable intersection of scien
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Galacticab Catastrophe
As a former Language Arts teacher, I wrote an award-winning novel incorporating Language Arts standards into a time-travel tale. Check out my reviews! "A masterfully written tale! After teaching for six years and being a middle school librarian for seven, I would enjoy teaching Galacticab Catastrophe and using it as a reference to re-teach literary elements. It's dense with Language Arts components, but it is also readable and high-interest." - Christy Hartley, Hillsborough County School Distri
Grades:
6th - 8th
How to Analyse! (Using sports analysis techniques)
Learning how to analyse can be a difficult skill for younger students. Using sports, which is a relevant and interesting avenue for many students, they can learn the steps to analyse movement, which can transfer to other forms of analysis. The lesson has been used for ages 10-12 but could be adapted to older students.
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6th - 8th
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Dewgy and the Golden Meadow
Dewgy is an American Indian boy who lived hundreds of years ago. Not unlike boys today, Dewgy struggled with growing up. Fortunately, his grandfather helped Dewgy learn about people, life, nature, and spirituality.
This short story is a great resource to teach students about ecology. Topics that can be introduced and discussed include biodiversity, food webs, conservation, spirituality, and cosmology. A hard copy is available on amazon.com for $4.99.
https://www.amazon.com/DEWGY-GOLDEN-MEADOW
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6th - 11th
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A Quick Glance at American History to 1877 Textbook
This book teaches both basic and specific historical topics. This book was created as a less expensive option for a student textbook, or as an inexpensive supplemental option to an already existing textbook. Although it does not cover every historical event, it does highlight many events and encourages higher order thinking skills and further reading and research. It is a great book for any student that is taking early American History to 1877. It exemplifies Bloom's Taxonomy!
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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