Grades 6-8

Support your child’s reading journey with Spectrum® Reading Comprehension Grade 7 Workbook! This standards-based, Spectrum Grade 7 workbook features a variety of middle school reading activities to build your child’s critical thinking...

Strong writing skills help children soar! Clear, concise communication benefits kids throughout school and into adulthood. Spectrum® Writing for grade 7 guides blossoming writers through the writing, proofreading, and editing process to create a...

Hake Grammar and Writing (formerly Saxon Grammar and Writing) is a rigorous English language arts series designed to help students learn and remember the skills and concepts that will enable them to be successful communicators. Covers Grammar,...

Helping you develop student abilities to analyze complex texts, determine evidence, reason critically, and communicate thoughtfully, Collections—the nation’s leading ELA program for Grades 6–12—provides a multi-faceted...

Helping you develop student abilities to analyze complex texts, determine evidence, reason critically, and communicate thoughtfully, Collections—the nation’s leading ELA program for Grades 6–12—provides a multi-faceted...

Enhance learning through personalized note-taking with an interactive notebook for language arts. Encourage students to create their own learning portfolios with the Mark Twain Interactive Notebook: Language Arts for grade 8. This 64-page interactive...

Language Lessons for a Living Education Level 8 is a comprehensive curriculum designed to sharpen students' communication skills as they prepare for high school. This course engages students through special features that teach creativity, spelling,...

Open a World of Ideas myPerspectives connects literacy learning to the world of ideas. It makes literacy socially, culturally, and digitally relevant for teens and young adults. A complete English Language Arts program for Grades...

Open a World of Ideas myPerspectives connects literacy learning to the world of ideas. It makes literacy socially, culturally, and digitally relevant for teens and young adults. A complete English Language Arts program for Grades...

Mark Twain's Grade 8 Reading Comprehension Workbook features versatile text, tips, and practice for reading assessment and success. Various activities focus on literature, novels, poetry, drama, informational text, speeches, autobiographies, science...

Encourage creativity and strengthen communication skills for your eighth grader with the Spectrum® 8th Grade Language Arts workbook. This standards-based middle school workbook for 8th grade students is packed with engaging, open-ended...

Support your child’s reading journey with Spectrum® Reading Comprehension Grade 8 Workbook! This standards-based, Spectrum Grade 8 workbook features a variety of middle school reading activities to build your child’s critical thinking...

Strong writing skills help children soar! Clear, concise communication benefits kids throughout school and into adulthood. Spectrum® Writing for grade 8 guides blossoming writers through the writing, proofreading, and editing process to create a...

Help students learn grammar, vocabulary, and more with this fun and creative resource book for middle grade language arts. The Brain Aerobics language arts book for fourth to ninth grades activates your students' brains to help them learn and remember...

Help students master cursive writing with a cursive writing book for middle grades that focuses on instruction and reinforcement. Ideal for students who are new to cursive writing and those who need a refresher, Cursive Writing: Instruction, Practice,...

Diagraming Sentences will help students of all ages learn how the parts of speech fit together to make clear and complete sentences. This 48-page language arts book shows visual learners how to diagram sentences to help them understand why some...

Foster a love of language with students in grades 4 and up using Jumpstarters for Abbreviations: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom! This 48-page resource helps students gain an understanding of abbreviations, such as forms of address, days,...

This language arts tutorial book engages middle school students while they refine important skills. Language Arts Tutor: Grammar, Capitalization, and Punctuation for fourth–eighth grades helps students master the following concepts: parts of...

Making Classroom Videos to Teach the Basics compares the writing process to the process of creating a video. Students will use the video-making activities in this 60-page resource book to develop these basic language arts...

Encourage students in grades 4 and up to improve their research skills and test scores using Note Taking: Lessons to Improve Research Skills and Test Scores. This 48-page activity book helps students develop strategies for effective note-taking from...

Enhance learning with daily mini-activities in this resource for language arts teachers. The Abbreviations Quick Starts workbook helps students recognize and use common abbreviations. Activities include fill-in-the-blank, short answer, true/false,...

Enhance learning with daily mini-activities in this resource for language arts teachers. The Analogies Quick Starts workbook covers concepts such as analogies associated with vocabulary, grammar, phonics, and more, and also helps students solve and...

This book for figurative language provides fun, challenging daily activities. The Figurative Language Quick Starts workbook features activities that include multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, concept application, and creative responses. Quick starts...

This language arts book provides fun, challenging daily activities. The Word Parts Quick Starts workbook helps students to practice recognition and use of root words, prefixes, suffixes, and much more. Activities include fill-in-the-blank, short...

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Personal Writing. This 32-page book teaches students about journal entries, autobiographies, anecdotes, lists, and letters. Activities include setting goals, looking at points of...

Teach students in grades 4 and up reference skills with Using a Dictionary. This 96-page book covers these dictionary skills: alphabetical order word placement spelling pronunciation parts of speech usage The book includes answer keys. SEE SAMPLE...

Help students pronounce words correctly with Word Pronunciation for grades 4 and up. This 124-page resource book can be used for individual or whole-group instruction. It covers short and long vowels, consonants, accent marks, and more. Includes...

Support spelling and make phonics fun for students in grades 5–6 using Spelling and Phonics: Daily Skill Builders. This 96-page language arts book features two short, reproducible activities per page and includes enough lessons for an entire...

Improve comprehension and foundational reading skills with a leveled reading resource book packed with high-interest text. Improve your guided reading lesson plans with Guided Reading: Infer for grades five and six. Designed to keep students’...

Help your 5th grade and 6th grade students build fluency and proficiency in essential nonfiction reading concepts with Mark Twain’s Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Grade 5 & 6 Workbook. Correlated to Current State and National Standards,...

Writing Strands Beginning 1 will help your junior high student master basic writing with unique exercises on dialogue, reporting, interviews, role playing, persuasion, story writing, organizing, and grouping ideas. Learn Language Arts Through Creative...

Providing an overview of grammar and an introduction to basic composition, this 96-page language arts resource book teaches the fundamentals of the English language. Grammar and Composition begins with words and progresses to sentences, paragraphs,...

Focus on the steps to creating and writing a good story. Story Writing includes prewriting steps, such as story ideas, purpose, and audience, as well as characters, setting, conflict and plot, and conclusion. Instruction and writing activities for...

Build and enhance reference skills for students in grades 6 and up using Research: Ready-to-Go Topics for Building Reference Skills. Designed to encourage students with a range of reading levels, this 64-page language arts resource book is perfect for...

Language Learning Stations is perfect for center activities, whole class instruction, or individual assignments. Topics includes punctuation, spelling skills, figures of speech, word meaning and more! The Learning Stations series increases student...

Literacy in Science and Technology: Learning Station Activities to Meet CCSS builds student interest, allows for inquiry, and increases student achievement. Includes Common Core State Standards matrices. Can be used for center activities,...

Increase assessment performance by teaching students how to analyze and interpret poetry. Poetry Comprehension for grades 6 to 8 prepares students for assessment by offering skill-building practice that improves reading comprehension. Designed to help...

The Reading: Literature Learning Stations is perfect for center activities, whole class instruction, or individual assignments. Topics includes plot and setting, alliteration and rhyme, tone and mood, inferences and evidence, and poetry. The Learning...

Help students improve communication with a language arts literacy workbook that addresses presentation skills. Ideal for individual and small-group learning within classroom centers, Speaking and Learning Stations by Mark Twain Media for...

Writing Learning Stations is perfect for center activities, whole class instruction, or individual assignments. Topics includes inference, proofreading, editing, compare and contrast and more! The Learning Stations series increases student achievement...