Mrs. Shaver - 8th Grade ELA & Social Studies
Welcome to 8th Grade English Language Arts & Social Studies!
Books we will be reading this year:
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Some important ELA Topics we will focus on this year:
- Reading and making inferences (understanding what is implied, but not directly stated)
- Understanding new or unfamiliar vocabulary words in a text, using context clues
- Understanding the text structure of non-fiction texts
- Reading & determining the central idea or theme of a text
- Understanding figurative language in a text
- Writing personal narratives & research-based informational essays
- Building an understanding of word stems (Latin & Greek roots)
