Teach your students how to organize their writing with this helpful Main Idea Organizer. Students will be asked to complete the worksheet by writing their own main idea, three details, and a summary. This will help your students better understand how to organize their ideas for writing in the future, especially when writing an essay!
8th Grade Reading: Informational Text
For eighth graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the deeper tasks involved in reading a non-fiction text. The standards require students to increase the complexity in the texts they read and deepen their understanding of the connections within and between texts. Among the complete standards for this grade, eighth graders will be asked to: support a textual analysis with direct textual evidence and explicit inferences, determine the theme of a text and how it develops within the text, be able to give an objective summary of a text, begin to evaluate the strength of argument, reasoning and supporting evidence within a text, be able to assess the appropriate use of various media to convey the meaning of information being conveyed, read text appropriate to grade level while increasing in the level of text complexity throughout the year.
Charles Dickens Visits America
In 1842 Charles Dickens was probably the most famous English language author in the world. In this year he visited America. Students read about the trip and answer the questions.
Draw a Conclusion: Visual Details
Your student will use visual clues to make inferences about a group of pictures in this worksheet.
Evaluating Text: My Life
In this worksheet, your student will assess a premise in Helen Keller’s autobiography, My Life.
Finding Text Evidence: Frederick Douglass
Your student will look for textual evidence in Frederick Douglass’ autobiography in this worksheet.
Inference Practice 2: Where Am I?
Here’s some inference practice for your middle school student.
Main Idea Graphic Organizer
Staying organized can be difficult, especially when you are trying to keep your writing and ideas well organized. With this printable Main Idea Graphic Organizer, students can keep their thoughts and ideas organized and separated based on their order of importance.
Organize the Main Idea
Help your students learn how to better organize their ideas with this Main Idea Organizer. Students will be asked to come up with a title, write a main idea, and support the main idea with three written details. In order to excel at writing, it is important to learn how to construct paragraphs in a way that is easy for the reader to understand the argument.
Summarize It: President Theodore Roosevelt’s Message
In this worksheet, your student will summarize part of President Theodore Roosevelt’s message to Congress about conservation.
Susan B. Anthony and the Right to Vote
Susan B. Anthony was very important in women’s right to vote. Here is a exercise for students to read and then answer related questions.
What’s the Purpose? FDR’s Pearl Harbor Speech
Your student will explore the purpose of President Franklin Roosevelt’s speech on the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Slavery in the Constitution
Your student can compare different parts of the Constitution that relate to slavery.