Vocabulary for eighth graders: 8th Grade Vocabulary – Vocabulary List

8th Grade Reading Practice – 8th Grade Reading Vocabulary

VocabularySpellingCity has many tools to help your 8th grade literature students comprehend new vocabulary as it relates to the works they are reading. Looking through these word lists, you will discover vocabulary for a large number of Common Core State Standards literature selections. Using these as a starting point, your students can explore these new 8th grade words and definitions through online interactive vocabulary games, free printable worksheets, flashcards, and other activities. As students read and hear the context-rich sentences and go through the activities, they will expand their vocabulary and increase reading comprehension. Read MoreRead Less

Increasing Vocabulary for 8th Grade Reading Success

At the grade eight level, the middle school literature your students study expands their range of knowledge and vocabulary in preparation for their entering high school. Each vocabulary list prepared for the stories, plays, and poems they read is designed to stretch their vocabulary and comprehension. This helps to widen the students’ world view and gives them new words to express their knowledge. Through interactive 8th grade vocabulary activities such as online games and vocabulary worksheets, students become familiar with the new words and gradually expand the range of their future reading.

Spelling is an integral part to continue to acquire vocabulary. Easily incorporate spelling into your reading instruction by importing your word lists or pairing a ready-made eight grade spelling word list with over 35 learning games and activities.

Eighth Grade Short Stories, Novels, and Poetry

Using VocabularySpellingCity’s literature-linked vocabulary lists, you can choose literary works that will meet your 8th grade reading goals. You can teach your students the famous Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride.” Or introduce them to some classic American literature by teaching Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain. In the realm of important non-fiction, you might choose “Preamble and First Amendment to the United States Constitution. ”

You can also import the prepared word lists into your account, and from there modify or expand them. You may also find vocabulary to create your own words and sentences to use with your class. If you download and print the grade 8 worksheets, students can even work on learning the words when they aren’t online. You can then administer online quizzes and track your students’ progress. As they encounter this vocabulary in the context of their middle school reading assignments, they’ll now know how to use and understand it, and their comprehension of the literary works is enhanced.

Common Core State Standards for Literature and Language

Among the VocabularySpellingCity word lists, you will find middle school reading, non-fiction, and poetry selections from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) literature list. Using a vocabulary word list in conjunction with the study of these literary works, students may more readily attain the CCSS standards, both for 8th grade literature and for vocabulary acquisition. For example, reading literature standard RL.8.4. requires that students can “Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.” If students have explored vocabulary through word games, worksheets, and other vocabulary activities, they will have learned both the meaning and spelling of key words, and will also have learned how to use them in context. This will better prepare the students to meet this standard.

VocabularySpellingCity’s interactive online vocabulary games, printable worksheets, and other activities are designed to aid in the study of 8th grade literature. As students play the reading games for 8th grade and learn the words, they expand their vocabulary and increase their reading comprehension. This prepares them for high school literature, for eventual standardized tests, and most of all, for the enjoyment of reading well into the future.

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Poor, age-inappropriate vocabulary

Some of the parents whose children are already in school have received complaints from teachers that their children have a rather poor vocabulary that is not appropriate for their age.

A child’s vocabulary is mainly formed in the family and is finally formed by the age of 6-7. If this does not happen, parents will have to deal with replenishing the vocabulary and developing the thinking of their baby along with specialists.

Your child may know a large number of words, and if asked, he will easily explain their meaning. However, this is a passive rather than an active vocabulary (lexicon).

Often the problem lies in insufficient reading, lack of sociability or, on the contrary, excessive activity of the child and his tendency to intercept words from youth slang.

Common problems of all toddlers and some adolescents with poor vocabulary are:

• Frequent use of interjections and pronouns;
• The words “parasites”;
• Gestures that replace words.

Children who have difficulty expressing their thoughts begin to imitate others, as a result of which they learn not the best vocabulary.

Poor vocabulary provokes an inaccurate understanding of the meanings of many words. There is nothing for such children to select test words from, so they often make mistakes when writing.

Deviations in the development of the vocabulary usually do not disappear on their own and require special attention not only from adults, but also from doctors.

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Development of the vocabulary of younger students.

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The development of the vocabulary of younger students.

The development of a student’s vocabulary depends on many factors.

The level of development of thinking that a child has reached determines the possibilities of assimilating words. Words of generalizing meaning become accessible to understanding only after the formation of the mental operation of generalization.

The vocabulary develops in the course of acquaintance with the surrounding world, its objects, phenomena, and depends on the socio-cultural level of people raising a child.

As speech and thinking develop, the gradually replenished vocabulary is ordered, systematized, forming semantic fields or word formations by meaning.

The following directions of dictionary development have been identified:

• Expansion of the vocabulary
• Clarification of the meaning of words
• Development of the word meaning structure
• Formation of semantic fields
• Extension of links between words.

Describing the vocabulary of students, it should be noted not only its limitations, but also an insufficient understanding of the meanings of words. It is this feature that underlies many errors in the use of words.

Mistakes that schoolchildren make:

The pig laughs (grunts)

The shawl is a naughty;

Begonia is a competition where everyone is running.

Bast shoes – when everyone paws each other;

Bristling – chop with an ax;

Forester is such a mushroom;

A forester is one who loves firewood;

Hygiene – when you don’t make faces;

Rolling pin – for jumping;

A guide dog is a dog that makes holes;

To plait – to mold from plasticine.

I believe that the work of enriching the vocabulary is very important, since only a child with a rich vocabulary can develop correct literate speech.

Vocabulary development games:

Similar words game

Purpose: to expand the vocabulary of synonyms, develop the ability to identify words that are similar in meaning.

We call the child a series of words and ask them to determine which two of them are similar in meaning and why. We explain to the child that similar words are friend words. And they are called so because they are similar in meaning.

Knock-call-drum;

Firewood-flame-fire;

Ship-wave-ship;
Friend – friend – enemy;

Sadness – joy – sadness;

Food – cleaning – food;

Labor – plant – work;

Fear-laughter-horror;

Old lady-grandfather;

Dance – dance – song;

Run – rush – go;

Think – want – think;

Walk – sit – walk;

Listen – look – look;

Cowardly – quiet – shy;

Old – wise – smart;
Stupid – small – stupid;
Funny – big – huge.

Game “Finish the sentence”

Purpose: formation of semantic fields, expansion of the dictionary of antonyms. An adult pronounces an unfinished sentence, the student selects the right word, choosing from words with the opposite meaning.

• Batteries are needed in the house to make it (cold, warm, hot)
• At the holiday they try to make the guests feel (bitter, sad, fun)
• The morning is over, it starts (night, day, evening)
• Lemon was sprinkled with sugar to make it (bitter, sour, sweet)
• Knives are sharpened to become (dull, crooked, sharp)
• A tree is watered to grow and become (high, low, straight)
• The water in the kettle is boiled to make it (hot, warm, cold)

Game “Two friends”

Purpose: development of a dictionary of synonyms.

Think of words-friends to these words:

tiny – (small), brave – (brave), beautiful – (beautiful).

FRIEND … ENEMY
DAY … NIGHT
JOY … SAD (SORRY)
HEAT … COLD

Game “Call me affectionately”

Purpose: fixing the agreement of the adjective with the noun, the formation of diminutive forms of adjectives.

Today we will play sweet words. Listen how beautiful it sounds:
The flower is red, and the flower is red.
Next, we say only part of the phrase, and the child finishes it.