Grade 8 Advanced Word Study

Grade 8 Advanced Word Study

Prepare your student for the demands of high school literacy with the Tazamach Spelling Series™ Grade 8 Advanced Word Study Workbook.

Students examine the relationships among spelling, pronunciation, word origin, structure and meaning. The workbook provides advanced practice with multisyllabic words, roots, affixes, academic vocabulary and commonly confused terms.

Learners are encouraged to think like word investigators by analysing unfamiliar words and applying spelling knowledge during proofreading and written communication.

Skills include:

• Advanced spelling patterns
• Multisyllabic word analysis
• Greek and Latin roots
• Prefixes, suffixes and base words
• Word origins and etymology
• Academic vocabulary
• Content-area terminology
• Frequently confused words
• Pronunciation and spelling connections
• Dictionary and thesaurus skills
• Editing and proofreading
• Vocabulary in written responses

Suitable for Grade 8 homeschoolers, classrooms, tutoring programs and high-school-readiness preparation.