Common Core Top Pick for Language Conventions of Standard English Knowledge of Language View all Common Core Top Picks for Language Daily Paragraph Editing grade 8 reproducible teachers edition contains everything you need to lead targeted language lessons including 176 reproducible student activity pages and corresponding teacher support. The teachers edition includes the following extras scope and sequence chart annotated answer key assessment rubric reproducible language handbook page of reproducible proofreading marks editing checklist for students Daily Paragraph Editing grade 8 provides 36 weeks of frequent focused language practice to help your eighth graders learn the conventions of standard English grammar and usage. The concise daily activities are ideal warmup exercises to begin your language arts block and are adaptable for smallgroup and wholeclass instruction. How it works students apply gradelevel language skills to correct a paragraph on Monday through Thursday when read together the four paragraphs form a cohesive composition. A writing prompt on Friday relates to the weeks fourparagraph composition and gives students the chance to apply the targeted language conventions. The weekly compositions cover a broad range of expository and narrative writing forms including nonfiction texts on gradelevel social studies and science topics biographies book reviews instructions interviews journal entries and letters fables fantasy and science fiction historical fiction personal narratives and realistic fiction Daily Paragraph Editing grade 8 covers gradelevel skills such as Capitalization quotations salutations and closings incorrect use of capitals names of people places and organizations titles of books magazines movies and songs Language Usage singular and plural forms verb tenses correct use of pronouns and adjectival and adverbial forms Punctuation apostrophes commas periods quotation marks colons semicolons and more Spelling identifying errors in spellin