8th Grade
In eighth grade, kids will evaluate arguments in written text, interpret the use of language, grasp similes and metaphors.
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Resources for 8th Grade
Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar
Short explanations followed by heavy drill, from McGraw-Hill's long-running self-study series. Cheap, plentiful practice.
Side by Side: Student Book 1 (Third Edition)
A conversation-first beginner course built around guided dialogues, which makes it one of the few ESL books that works with two people at a kitchen table.
Essential Grammar in Use with Answers
Raymond Murphy's elementary grammar reference, built on a two-page unit format that makes it genuinely usable for self-study.
Word Power Made Easy
A vocabulary builder that teaches Greek and Latin roots rather than word lists, so each session unlocks families of words at once.
Basic English Grammar Workbook (Azar-Hagen, 5th Edition)
The grammar series most ESL teacher training programs are built around, in workbook form with a full answer key for self-study.
Oxford Picture Dictionary, Third Edition
The standard visual dictionary in ESL classrooms worldwide: roughly 4,000 words organized by real-life situation rather than alphabetically.
English for Everyone Practice Book Level 1: Beginner
The written practice half of DK's Level 1 course. Buy it with the course book, not instead of it.
English for Everyone Course Book Level 1: Beginner
DK's visual self-study English course, built so a complete beginner can work through it alone without a teacher explaining every page.
The Executive Functioning Workbook for Teens
A worksheet-based workbook the teenager completes themselves, building planning, time estimation and self-monitoring habits one short activity at a time.
Late, Lost, and Unprepared
A clinical psychologist's parent guide to executive functioning, organized skill by skill so you can work on the one your child actually struggles with.
That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week
Ana Homayoun's parent guide to organizing disorganized middle and high schoolers, built on the binder-and-planner system she uses with private clients.
Amos Fortune, Free Man
Newbery Medal biography of an African-born man enslaved in colonial New England who bought his freedom and that of others.