Eighth Grade Spelling Help - Learning the Sequence of

Spelling Skills
First, understand what the spelling curriculum is for eighth grade. By eighth grade
students should be familiar with around 15,000 words and will read over one million
words annually. Eight grade spelling students should know how to decode words they
have never seen before through understanding of English language spelling
conventions. They also need knowledge and strategies for spelling words they've never
spelled before. Therefore the emphasis in eight grade spelling is to be sure students are
aware of spelling conventions and able to apply them correctly. One example of a
spelling convention is that if a suffix starts with a vowel, such as -ABLE, -ED, or -ING,
and a root word ends in a single vowel and consonant, the final letter will be doubled.
We see that STOP becomes STOPPING, TAP becomes TAPPED, and CLAP becomes
CLAPPING. There are many other spelling conventions introduced and discussed
during eighth grade spelling, all of which contribute to the student's skill in reading and
writing the English language.
Eighth grade spelling games, spelling worksheets, and spelling bee activities teach
eighth grade spelling skill. An eighth grade spelling activity provides an opportunity for
children to get the spelling skill to read most two syllable words. These very young
children learn through spelling activities including many creative methods that make the
eighth grade spelling program fun for them. Eighth grade spelling includes home
spelling help, spelling words, spelling games, spelling tests, and other spelling activity.

Eighth Grade Spelling Program - What spelling

words?
Time4Learning teaches a comprehensive eighth grade spelling curriculum using fun,
eighth grade spelling activities to build a solid spelling foundation. Help your child excel
in spelling, learn more about Time4Learning's eighth grade spelling lessons, curriculum,
activities and worksheets.

Eighth Grade Spelling Program and Curriculum

Standards:
Spelling Words - Words for Spelling Games, Spelling
Tests, Home Spelling Help

abbreviate
cinnamon
absorbent
classic
accept
collateral
access
colleague
accessible
college
accessory
comedy
acoustics
commerce
accumulate
commercial
acknowledgment
committee
adjust
communicate
aerial
commuter
affects
compel
alien
compensation
allotment
competent
allotted
consider
already
contiguous
altercation
corporal
amass
council
amendment
counsel
amorous
country
ancestor
creator
anecdote
critique
angular
customary
anonymous
customer
antidote
daybreak
antique
deceive
antiseptic
defendant
architect
deficient
arrangement
deficit
asphalt
depreciation
assignment
desirable
asterisk
desolate
attorneys
detain
audible
devour
aviator
diagnosis
bachelor
diffidence
bankruptcy
diminish

erroneous
especially
exceptional
excessive
existence
exotic
expression
extremity
extricate
facsimile
familiar
fantastic
faulty
federal
feud
flexible
flout
fluorescent
folklore
forcible
fortunately
franchise
frivolous
frostbitten
further
galaxy
galling
genuine
gesture
geology
gigantic
gnawing
gorgeous
grotesque
gymnasium
handicapped
handling

irksome
irresistible
irrevocable
issuing
itemized
jewelry
judicious
juror
justifiable
landslide
legitimate
leisure
liaison
library
license
lieutenant
loophole
lunar
luncheon
magnify
malefactor
malicious
markup
mattress
mesmerize
meteor
metric
mischievous
misgiving
modern
modicum
mystery
negligence
neon
neutral
newsstand
nineteenth

poignancy
poignant
potential
preceding
precipice
preoccupy
prospectus
quest
questionnaire
quixotic
radioactive
rapacious
rayon
raze
recently
reconcile
relevant
relief
repulse
revive
rhyme
rhythm
roommate
roster
sanctuary
sandwich
scarcely
schedule
schism
scholar
schooner
sedition
semester
seminary
session
shrine
sieve

barbaric
bask
battery
behavior
benefited
berserk
besieged
bicycle
blanch
brilliance
budget
bulletin
business
cachet
callus
cancellation
canvas
canvass
capricious
carburetor
cashier
catastrophe
centripetal
characteristic
chaste

disappeared
disapproval
disbursement
discernible
discrepancy
disinterested
disoblige
dissociate
distress
diurnal
divine
domestic
domesticate
dominance
easier
ecstasy
effect
eject
eligible
eliminate
encouragement
encyclopedia
epic
equilibrium

handsome
haphazard
harness
hazardous
headquarters
homogenize
horrific
humidor
idiosyncrasy
impatience
impinge
incandescent
inconsolable
indelible
inept
influence
innocence
innumerable
insistent
insoluble
integrity
intensify
interrogative
invariable

nonentity
noticeable
notoriety
nuisance
numerator
nylon
obesity
oblique
obstinate
obsolete
officious
opposite
optimism
oregano
overrate
pageant
parliament
passable
paucity
penalty
perseverance
personality
picnicking
plaintiff

signal
sincerely
soccer
solitary
subvert
statutory
terrific
thieves
tragedy
transient
transmutation
turpitude
tyranny
unacceptable
unique
unmoved
usher
utopia
vengeance
vocal
voucher
withhold
wrestle
written

Comprehensive Eighth Grade Spelling and Language

Arts Curriculum
Spelling skills should develop as part of an overall language arts phonemic
awareness, phonics, reading comprehension, vocabulary andreading fluency, grammar,
reading and writing program. Children should (with help from their parents) develop their
foundational spelling skills through an interest in words, regular writing, constant
reading, a study of spelling rules, and playing of spelling games. Skilled, fluent readers
are the culmination of the successful learning of a broad array of pre-reading and
reading skills. Irrespective of family background, learning to be a skilled speller is often
not a trouble-free process. Spelling programs, personalized tutoring, reading

workbooks, spelling games, and structured computer spelling programs can help teach
or reinforce these skills.
Some children need spelling practice, while others need more intensive remedial
spelling programs. Parents can help their children with the spelling process by providing
high-quality educational materials, establishing a pattern of daily spelling and reading,
instructing through guided spelling activity, creating a rich language environment,
discussing a child's progress with teachers, and following up on their recommendations.
Time4Learning offers fun, computer spelling and reading programs, which help reinforce
spelling skills at home through educational activities and learning games. Learn more
about Time4Learning's computer reading programs, we offer activities for kids,
preschool to eighth grade.

Reading Comprehension Activities for Eighth Grade

Students
To help students understand how to interact with the text, you can practice a number of
reading activities. You must make them privy to the dialogue readers have with
themselves while reading. Here is an example of the self monitoring reading
comprehension questions that skilled readers ask themselves:
1.

Predict what will happen next in a story using clues presented in text.

2.

Create questions about the main idea, message, or plot of the text.

3.

Monitor understanding of the sequence, context, or characters.

4.

Clarify parts of the text which have confused them.

5.

Connect the events in the text to prior knowledge or experience.

To give your kid a window into the self-monitoring that skilled readers engage in as they
read, demonstrate some of the reading activities for students listed above while you
read aloud with them. Periodically stop and ask questions to make sure that they
comprehend the story.
If you are reading a confusing passage, stop and say, "I didn't understand that. Did
you?" Ask them to interpret the text, and after listening to their interpretation, say:

"Interesting, Let's check and read this part again." Reread the passage and then
discuss your new understanding.
Time4Learning teaches reading comprehension skills in a number of ways. There are
variety of reading activities for students, which help young readers develop skills in
approaching, reading, and interpreting text. Take a demo of Time4Learning's computer
reading programs.
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patience
adj. good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

centennial
n. the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it)

financier
n. an expert or one clever at handling stocks, bonds, investments, and other money
matters

larynx
n. voice box; passageway for air moving from pharynx to trachea; contains vocal cords

accomplice
n. a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical
or illegal plan)

photosynthesis

n. process by which plants use the sun's energy to convert water and carbon dioxide
into sugars

ineffable
adj. incapable of being expressed (b/c too wonderful)

fallacy
n. a false or mistaken idea

psychoanalysis
n. A set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating
various mental disorders

vengeance
n. punishment in return for an injury or a wrong; unusual force or violence (a BAD
idea that harms the one perpetrating it -- one should only 'get back' or 'get even' w/
those who have helped one)

aggrandizement
an increase in rank or wealth; growth in power (usu. falsely exaggerated)

labyrinth
n. a very complicated maze
cajolery
n. strong persuasion by flattery; wheedling; coaxing

rotisserie
n. a turning device on which food is cooked (restaurant that serves food cooked this
way)

omniscient
adj. All-knowing (Ms. Fong!)

circuitous
adj. indirect, ROUNDabout

pigeon
n. slang for tattle-tale; 'rat w/ wings', rock dove;

competitive
adj. characterized by rivalry.

scholarship
n. 1. studious attention to learning; 2. financial aid provided to a student on the basis
of academic merit

apprentice
n. A person who works for another in order to learn a trade

exhaust
1. v. to wear out completely 2. n. gases ejected from an engine as waste products

monopolize
v. to have and control fully and exclusively

scruple
n. an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action

agricultural
adj. relating to farming or rural things

encore
n. 1) an extra or repeated performance 2) again (French word)

suburban
adj. relating to or characteristic of the area just outside a big city

quarantine
n./v. isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease

oblige
v. to force or compel somebody to do something

hysterical
adj. 1. uncontrollably emotional; 2. super funny (slang)

miraculous
adj. performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency

affiliation
n. a link or association w/ s.o./s.t.

subterranean
adj. underground

luxury
n. something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity; a lifestyle filled with
overconsumption

indelible
adj. impossible to be removed, washed away or erased

anticoagulant
n. a drug that prevents clotting of the blood

conundrum
n. a hard puzzle; riddle; difficult problem

palatable
adj. acceptable to the taste or mind

analogize
v. to make a comparison of two things -- show their similiarity in some way/trait

infatuation
n. foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration

enfranchise
v. to give the vote and/or grant freedom to

analgesia
n. condition of being unable to feel pain

latitudinarian
(n) a person who is broad-minded and tolerant; one who displays freedom in thinking,
especially in religious matters

adieu

n. "farewell;" a farewell (from the French word)

paramecium
n. a protozoan (very small animal) that moves by using the hair-like cilia around its
body

adjudicate
v. 1. to put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge; 2. to bring an end to s.t.

calisthenics
n. light exercise designed to promote general fitness

brigadier
n. a general officer ranking below a major general

anemone
n. marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles