Excellent Excerpts - Level One (Grade 8 Reading and Writing)

Explore different styles and forms while reading poems and literary excerpts on a variety of topics; practise your writing with assignments that encourage creative and thoughtful effort!

In each Excellent Excerpts Collection there are 20 printable reading and writing assignments. Complement your main curriculum with short age-appropriate texts, each matched with a unique writing assignment. This Collection is especially suited to sensitive students aged 13, or in Grade 8. It may also be used for older students, as teachers see fit.

There is no limit to the number of selections you can use. You may work through them in order or choose a topic or assignment to suit the moment.

Full instructions are included.

For each piece of writing, there are:

· A brief introduction to the author and the excerpt

· A short ‘As You Read’ guide

· Two questions to be answered in writing or in discussion

· One writing assignment, specific to the excerpt

We used these selections for our daughter as a significant part of her curriculum, and they were an excellent way to prepare her for advanced classical learning-style assignments. Most importantly, they focus on a genuine love of reading and writing, inviting students to notice and appreciate literary form and style without immediately labeling or categorizing elements of good writing.