Common Core Standards
Grade 8
Writing W.8.9
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
What it says on the tin, really. As long as students are writing and the eighth grade reading standards are being met in their analysis/reflection/research, this standard should be met with no problems.
Standard Components
Aligned Resources
- Teaching A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Follow the Thread
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Famous Kids Traveling in Threes (or Fours)
- Teaching American Born Chinese: Are You There, God? It's Me, Monkey King
- Teaching A Little Princess: Follow the Leader
- Teaching Maniac Magee: City Divided
- Teaching Moon Over Manifest: Sliding Through History
- Teaching Murder on the Orient Express: Deadly Motives
- Teaching Dragonwings: Disasters
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: Let's Do the Time Warp
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: "America the Beautiful": In Depth
- Teaching The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Murder Mystery
- Teaching The Fault in Our Stars: It's in the Details – Plot and Themes
- Teaching The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: Split Identities: Being Two at Once
- Teaching The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Fence-Painting in Other Contexts
- Teaching The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Childhood Treasures
- Teaching The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Modern-Day Toms and Hucks
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Create Your Own Knowledge Bowl
- Teaching The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Famous Islands
- Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird: A Dream Deferred
- Teaching Where the Red Fern Grows: An Instance of Persistence
- Teaching Dragonwings: The Real Windrider
- Teaching Dragonwings: Story Elements Game
- Teaching Flowers for Algernon: The Final Report
- Teaching Flowers for Algernon: The Search for Me
- Teaching Hatchet: Biology 101
- Teaching A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Nickeled & Dimed
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Right Brain Versus Left Brain
- Teaching And Then There Were None: Character Cards
- Teaching And Then There Were None: Order in the Court
- Teaching Moon Over Manifest: Ode to a Static or Dynamic Character
- Teaching Number the Stars: Friends, Danes, Countrymen…
- Teaching Bridge to Terabithia: Not Another Janice Avery!
- Teaching Bridge to Terabithia: Building Bridges
- Teaching Animal Farm: Corruption Makes the World Go Round
- ELA Online: Digital Literacy Connections to English Language Arts: Twilight Activity: The Cullen Cars