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THE GRAY BOOK
8TH GRADE SKILLS

​Primarily based on dictation, your student will learn all the components of language arts in one easy to use book. A five week Writing Unit prepares students for high school writing and research as well as continued study in prefixes, suffixes, and roots words. Four Book Studies are designed to expand understanding through various activities involving reading and writing skills. The updated third edition is even easier to use with new lessons and analogies study.
 
  • 36 weekly lessons divided into daily plans. Teacher friendly, with little or no preparation needed!
  • Integrated language arts lessons including: grammar, spelling, higher order thinking, and study skills. Encouraging a love for classical literature, through dictation students learn punctuation, capitalization, parts of speech, grammar, creative writing, and more.
  • Spelling lists each week from the most Commonly Misspelled Words.
  • Vocabulary Building exercises bring meaning to vocabulary in context making it useful in everyday language. Continued study of suffixes, prefixes, and root words prepares students for college testing.
  • Four Book Studies (listed in the order they appear):
    • Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
    • A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich
    • Eric Liddell by Catherine Swift
    • God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew
  • A five week Writing Unit prepares students for high school writing and research as well as continued study in prefixes, suffixes, and roots words.
  • The Skills Index provides an easy skill reference.
  • Reviews Activities follow each lesson providing additional skill practice.
  • Assessments help teachers to evaluate student's progress.
The Gray Student Activity Book is the perfect companion for the Gray Teacher Book! Everything in one book: student instruction, a place for writing, and a tool for easy record keeping. Allows for more independent work, a BONUS for teachers. The Gray SAB provides Enrichment Activities such as word puzzles, analogies, logic/reasoning activities and more found ONLY in the SAB. (Answers are found in The Teacher Book.) Please note: The Student Activity Book cannot be used independently.

LLATL 3rd Ed: Grey 8th Grade Student Book

$69.95Price
    • 36 weekly lessons divided into easy-to-use daily plans.

    • 3 Book Studies (listed in the order which they appear):

      • The Star of Light by Patricia St. John

      • Adam and His Kin by Ruth Beechick

      • Much Ado About Nothing - Play by Shakespeare

    • 4 Units:

      • Everyday Words

      • Poetry Unit

      • Short Story Unit

      • Research Unit

    • Integrated language arts lessons including: grammar, spelling, higher-order thinking, and study skills.

    • Teacher friendly, with little or no teacher preparation needed!

    • The Skills Index provides an easy skill reference.

    • Reviews Activities follow most lessons providing additional skill practice.

    • Assessments help teachers to evaluate progress.

    The Everyday Words Unit is comprised of 13 weeks of grammar, dictation, sentence structure, and diagraming using classical literature for the middle school student. The Poetry Unit encourages an appreciation while memorizing, reciting, and analyzing various poetry. Students compose poetry and a psalm. In the Short Story Unit, students will analyze the elements of a story, develop a plot line of a story, write dialogue and much more. Research is taught in an easy to follow step by step plan for student and teacher. Each Book Study contains a summary, vocabulary skills, reading comprehension, and exciting activities.

     

    The Green Student Activity Book is the perfect companion for the Green Teacher Book! Everything in one book: student instruction, a place for writing, and a tool for easy record keeping. Allows for more independent work, a BONUS for teachers. The Green SAB provides Enrichment Activities such as word puzzles, analogies, logic/reasoning activities and more found ONLY in the SAB.

  • * Perfect Companion to LLATL!
    * Now in Convenient Book Format!
    * More Student Instruction for Independent Work!
    * Enrichment Activities Included!
    * Student activity books have lots of variety, and this helps stimulate and maintain student's interest.

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