Grade Eight Outline
Texts: Nelson Literacy 8
Nelson Literacy is a comprehensive literacy resource that assists differentiated instruction through ongoing assessment to guide instruction.
The components are based on a gradual release of responsibility model, providing read aloud, modeling, guided practice, and independent practice.
This program makes specific links to the other areas of the provincial curricula.
Novels: Make or Break Spring
Awake and Dreaming
The Outsiders
*Other resources to supplement the program deemed necessary by the teacher to reach learning outcomes and enrich program
The Nelson Literacy resource is organized thematically into the following units.
In this book you will see different kinds of pages: focus pages, which outline different strategies and describe how to use them; understanding strategies, these have instructions in the margins to help in your understanding; applying strategies, these pages give you a chance to apply what you have learned; transfer of learning, these pages allow you to apply what you have learned t other subject areas.
Texts: Nelson Literacy 8
Nelson Literacy is a comprehensive literacy resource that assists differentiated instruction through ongoing assessment to guide instruction.
The components are based on a gradual release of responsibility model, providing read aloud, modeling, guided practice, and independent practice.
This program makes specific links to the other areas of the provincial curricula.
Novels: Make or Break Spring
Awake and Dreaming
The Outsiders
*Other resources to supplement the program deemed necessary by the teacher to reach learning outcomes and enrich program
The Nelson Literacy resource is organized thematically into the following units.
- Unit 1: Global Citizens
- Unit 2: Tech then and Now
- Unit 3:Secrets
- Unit 4:No Limits
- Unit 5:Reality Check
- Unit 6:Chasing A Dream
In this book you will see different kinds of pages: focus pages, which outline different strategies and describe how to use them; understanding strategies, these have instructions in the margins to help in your understanding; applying strategies, these pages give you a chance to apply what you have learned; transfer of learning, these pages allow you to apply what you have learned t other subject areas.
- Unit 1: Global Citizens
- Unit 2: Tech then and Now
- Unit 3:Secrets
- Unit 4:No Limits
- Unit 5:Reality Check
- Unit 6:Chasing A Dream
- Writing and Representing Outcomes 30%
- Reading and Viewing 25%
- Research 10%
- Speaking and Listening 15%
- FINAL 20%