Spectrum Reading Workbook, Grade 8 (Spectrum)

WORKBOOK FEATURES: - Ages 13-14, Grade 8 - 160 pages, 10.7 inches x 8.3 inches - Engaging fiction and nonfiction passages - Passage reviews and exercises - Answer key included FOCUSED PRACTICE: Spectrum's Eight Grade Reading Workbook provides focused close reading practice to strengthen your eighth grader's ability to understand, process, and analyze fiction and nonfiction passages. This 160-page illustrated workbook helps kids enhance their reading comprehension skills through engaging texts and discussion questions. CORRELATED TO CURRENT STATE STANDARDS: This standards-based workbook helps your child build fluency and proficiency in essential reading concepts, including determining a theme or central idea of a story, analyzing theme development, citing textual evidence, using context clues, connotative, and technical words and phrases, and writing informative texts using relevant content from a specific text. HOW IT WORKS: Each new reading lesson is introduced with a question to encourage students to read with purpose. Students then read an on-level story or informative text that is followed by open-ended questions, true-or-false statements, and multiple-choice questions that encourage critical thinking and help improve their reading habits. WORKING TOGETHER: This English language arts workbook is designed to provide parents and teachers the opportunity to teach their students one-on-one or to allow students to set their own pace as they explore the lessons. An answer key is provided to assess student understanding and success. WHY SPECTRUM: For more than 20 years, Spectrum has provided solutions for parents who want to help their children get ahead and for teachers who want their students to meet and exceed set learning goals; the workbooks are also an excellent resource for homeschooling. Spectrum partners with you in supporting your child's educational journey every step of the way.