Article of the Week Club, 8th Grade | Nonfiction Reading Passages Middle School

Article of the Week Club, Grade 8 (8th Grade Nonfiction Articles + Activities)

8th Grade Article of the Week Club is your solution for teaching ALL of the CCSS for Grade 8 Reading Informational Text! You’ll receive 25 nonfiction article + activity packs according to the schedule below. This includes a midterm and final assessment for reading informational text standards. Your students will enjoy practicing all of the common core reading informational text standards with these high-interest informational text passages.

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Each article + activity pack includes these components:

original article written at the 8th grade level

modified version of each article

professional audio recording of each article and modified article

editable version of all activities and assessments

digital Google Slides version of all articles and activities

self-grading Google Forms assessments (3 per article)

Each article + activity pack includes these activities:

Activity 1 - Literal Comprehension Check (multiple choice)

Activity 2 - Literal Comprehension Check (open-ended) (alternate option for Act 1)

Activity 3 - Text Evidence Practice (annotation version)

Activity 4 - Text Evidence Practice (multiple choice version) (alternate option for Act 3)

Activity 5 - Skills focus (focuses on one CCSS skill)

Activity 6 - Integrating Sources Activity

Activity 7 - Skills Test

Activity 8 - Modified Skills Test (alternate option for Act 7)

Articles Currently Available (Download Today!)

8-1: Development of Central Ideas (Walkout!)

8-2: Write an Objective Summary (Colonization & Apartheid in South Africa w/Trevor Noah)

8-3: Analyze Connections in a Text (Modern Folklore: Urban Legends, Old Wives' Tales, & Superstitions - Paired Text for The Monkey's Paw)

8-4: Analyze Connections in a Text (Do Video Games Cause Violence?)

8-5: Review (The Disturbing History of Human Experimentation - Paired Text for Flowers for Algernon)

8-6: Figurative & Connotative Meaning (The Incredible Life of Louis Zamperini)

8-7: Analyze Word Choice, Allusion, Analogy (Arachnophobia)

8-8: Analyze Text Structure (The Strange Life of Edgar Allan Poe)

8-9: Analyze Text Structure (Maggots as Medicine)

8-10: Analyze Author's Point of View & Purpose (Instagram Influencers)

8-11: Conflicting Viewpoints (Surviving the Holocaust)

8-12: Review (Should You Eat Like a Caveman?)

8-13: MIDTERM Assessment Skills RI.8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6 (Man vs. Nature)

8-14: Evaluate Arguments, Claims, Irrelevant Info (Insects for Dinner?)

8-15: Evaluate Arguments, Claims, Irrelevant Info (9-11 Disease)

8-16: Evaluate Mediums (Text-Video) (The Battle of Mogadishu)

8-17: Conflicting Information & Interpretation RI.8.9 (Raw Cookie Dough)

8-18: Conflicting Information & Interpretation RI.8.9 (Paul Revere Truth Vs. Legend)

8-19: REVIEW of RI.8.7, RI.8.8, and RI.8.9 ('Oumuamua: A Messenger From Afar)

8-20: Citing Text Evidence RI.8.1 (When High School Football Turns Deadly)

8-21: Text Structure RI.8.5 and RL.8.5 w/Paired Poem (Teen Vaping Epidemic)

8-22: Test Prep/Standardized Test Practice

8-23: End of the Year Review ESCAPE ROOM / (Delayed School Start)

8-24: FINAL EXAM (Scandal at SeaWorld)

8-25: PRE ASSESSMENT (Child Labor Then & Now)

For details about which CCSS skills are included in which articles, check out this working Google Doc anytime for updates: https://goo.gl/2XNGQg

Topics are also added to this document as they are decided. Of course, topics and skills are always subject to change if needed.

Nonfiction Article of the Week Clubs are available for 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades:

5th Grade Article of the Week Club

6th Grade Article of the Week Club

7th Grade Article of the Week Club