6-8+English+Language+Arts

Reading Literature
Better Readers - wiki [|Close Reading Lessons- Achieve the Core] [|Before, During & After Reading Activities] [|EDSITEment: lesson plans, primary source documents] [|Pennsylvania Lesson Plans] [|Jim Burke, graphic organizers] [|Literature Circles Resource Center] [|ReadWriteThink, lesson plans & links]

Reading Information
[|Read Works, 6th Grade Passages & Novel Units] [|Biographies] [|The New York Times Learning Network] [|Blog of Nonfiction YA Book Reviews]

Writing
[|*** 8th Grade CCSS Unit from NY] [|*** 8th Grade Constructing Text-Based Arguments Lesson Plans] [|Performance Tasks - NYC] [|Teachers' College Reading & Writing Project] [|Argument & Persuasive Writing Lessons] [|Cite lighter, easily create bibliography] [|Easy Bib] [|Research Guide for Students]

[|Purdue OWL: Argument Writing] [|Ohio Writing Assessment Resources] [|Argument Writing Site]

Speaking & Listening
[|Middle School Debate Resources] [|American Rhetoric - great speeches] [|TED Talks] [|Spoken Word with Ted Talks & more]

Language
[|Grammar Girl Podcasts] [|Purdue OWL: Grammar, Punctuation...] [|Vocabulary-Frayer Model] [|Academic Vocabulary Word Lists] [|Grammar Handbook]



Resources
[|Reading & Writing Project CCSS Videos of Teaching] [|English Companion, free membership] [|Georgia ELA Units] [|New York CCSS Tasks] [|Common Core Curriculum Maps - (click unit then scroll down)]