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Resources for Grades 7 - 8
Seventh and eighth graders are nearing the end of middle school. The materials here can help you make the most of their time outside of school.
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This activity invites children and teens to explore various careers and then write about what they might want to be when they grow up in a blog.
Encourage children to spend a little time thinking and writing about just what makes a hero and who their personal heroes might be.
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 Games & Tools |
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The Bio Cube asks children to summarize information about a person for a biography or autobiography. The activity helps them learn how to identify and shorten key ideas.
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Creating a podcast gives teens a chance to communicate with others. The skills teens learn in this process can help them become better writers and public speakers.
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Children can be card sharks in this game, which challenges players to build words from prefixes, root words, and suffixes.
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 Podcasts |
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Readers of picture books and graphic novels know that visual images sometimes tell a story in a way that words cannot. Tune in to hear about newly-published middle grade and young adult fiction, graphic novels, biographies, travel memoirs, and informational books, all of which use visual material in ways that enrich the text's meaning.
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Help a Child Write a Book Review
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