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📖 8th Grade · ELAL.8.2aUnit 6: Grammar & vocabulary

Punctuation for pauses

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🎯 Objective: Students use commas, ellipses and dashes.

Lesson outline

  1. Model.
  2. Practice.
  3. Edit.
  4. Exit: one dash.

Lesson 4 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

L.8.2a

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 8 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explain verbals
  • Use active and passive voice and verb moods
  • Use roots and nuances in word meanings

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 8th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Grammar & vocabulary”

  1. Verbals
  2. Active and passive voice
  3. Verb moods
  4. Punctuation for pauses
  5. Nuances in word meaning

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