2022 8th Grade Nonreligious Additional Student Kit

This innovative grammar program will take your student from the fundamental definition of a noun through a detailed analysis of complex sentence structure. Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind will give him the skills he will need for articulate writing and confident speech.

Mosdos Press Literature is a complete literature program that reinforces the ideals of courage, honesty, loyalty, and compassion. Readings are from both classic and contemporary works. Mosdos Press Literature includes a beautifully illustrated student reader with selections of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, the novella; an engaging student activity workbook; and a detailed and well-organized teacher’s edition. Gold, the textbook for eighth grade, offers increasingly complex literature and a curriculum that prepares your student for high school. The lessons emphasize discussion and hone in on cultivating critical reasoning skills.

In Write Your Own Scripts, your student will strengthen creative writing skills by developing characters, scenes, settings, special effects, dialogue, and more. 

Children with a solid grasp of word roots will have better reading comprehension skills, because they have the ability to decode words. Word Roots teaches the meanings of Latin and Greek prefixes, roots, and suffixes of words commonly used in English.

Extreme Dot to Dots: National Parks contains 32 puzzles of scenes from the volcanos of Haleakala National Park to the black bears of Great Smokey Mountain National Park. A handy key in the back identifies each scene and provides interesting details and facts.

Building Thinking Skills books are among our favorites because of their tremendous scope. This volume emphasizes figural problems for older students.

U.S. History Detective is a complete U.S. history course that has integrated critical thinking skills into the lessons’ content. Book 1 covers the colonial era up through Reconstruction. Critical thinking questions ask your student to explore the options and then provide evidence from the lessons to support his conclusion. Ease of use, suitability for independent study, and critical thinking questions make U.S. History Detective an excellent option for exploring U.S. history. 

Friendly Physical Science helps your young teen explore and make sense of how things work. Using straightforward narration and colorful diagrams and photos, Friendly Physical Science makes even complex ideas understandable.

A Year in My Life is a mashup of a creative writing journal and a doodle book with tons of kid appeal. This beautifully illustrated journal invites your child to create a commemorative keepsake from a year in his life. Fill in 365 quirky idea starters and unique prompts, one for every day of the year.

The Test Prep series offers students the essential groundwork needed to prepare for standardized tests. Based on subject areas covered by most state standardized tests, these colorful, inviting workbooks provide a good sampling of all the skills required of each grade level.