• Literary skills focus on reading comprehension and text analysis. Students should apply their reading comprehension skills to documents.
• They should be able to recognize the main idea, central theme, and supporting details. Students should have ample practice summarizing, comparing and contrasting, and inferring an author’s meaning. Eighth-grade students should also learn to recognize and understand the use of language, such as figurative language, analog, and allusions.
• Students should begin comparing and two texts that present conflicting information on the same topic. They should be able to identify the cause of the conflicts, such as contradictory or inaccurate facts, or the author’s opinion or bias on the subject.
• Provide eighth graders with ample opportunities practice their composition skills. They should a variety of essays and more complex compositions, including how-to, persuasive, and informational articles; poetry; short stories; and research papers

Resources: If any link does not work, please let me know by leaving a comment and I will fix it as soon as possible.

• Intermediate Reading – Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool
• 8th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions
• 8th Grade Reading List – Freedom Homeschooling
• Under the Home Online Homeschool Curriculum – Home Shakespeare- I know that it says for 3rd and 4th, but this is Shakespeare.
• creative-writing prompts
• 50 Fun Writing prompts
• Middle School books
• Book List