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Eighth Grade Lessons and Units

Unit and lesson design guidance and templates

Videos that share literacy practices in action

Lessons and Units
State Department Collections

Louisiana Department of Education: Eighth Grade.
Mississippi Department of Education: Eighth Grade
New York State ELA Units
Utah Education Network: Organized by Standard
Vermont Writing Collaborative: Writing for Understanding Common Core Units for Teachers
Kentucky Literacy Strategies and Organizers

Independent Organization Collections

Achieve: A not for profit, independent group dedicated to raising student achievement; assisted in development of the CCSS: Select EQuIP Exemplars Tab, Grade 8 (Three units to select)
Anthology Alignment Project. Free teacher-developed Common Core-aligned lessons for anthology reading series in grade six. Each story has updated text-dependent questions, tier 2 vocabulary as well as culminating tasks including writing.
Student Achievement Partners: Instructional Lesson Planning Guide
CommonLit: High quality, free, standards aligned instructional units that support literacy development in grades 5-12
Common Sense Media Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum: These free K-12 materials are aligned to our new standards and can be accessed in iBooks or in printable form.
NCTE Lessons: Poetry

Literacy Design Collaborative: Teachers

Literacy Design Collaborative Overview Page: Resources describe basics of LDC units--videos will give understanding as well.