Cherokee County School District READ 180 Workshops Aligned with CCGPS-Eighth Grade
School Year Overview
1st 9 Weeks
2nd 9 Weeks
3rd 9 Weeks
4th 9 Weeks
READING
Primary Focus:
Informational Text
ELACC8RI1-10
Secondary Focus:
Literary Text
ELACC8RL1-10
READ 180 NG workshop 8
 1 extended informational
text
(choose one from R-180
library or Bad Boy, a Memoir,
by Walter Dean Myers as
shown in DOE sample)
 6 thematically connected
short texts
READING
Primary Focus:
Literary Text
ELACC8RL1-10
Secondary Focus:
Informational Text
ELACC8RI1-10
READ 180 NG workshop not
previously covered or
READ 180 Flex (Workshop 1) or
LBook
 1 extended literary text
(choose one from R-180
library or The Lighthouse, by
Eugenia Price OR The Member
of the Wedding, by Carson
McCulers as shown in DOE
sample)
READING
Primary Focus:
Informational Text
ELACC8RI1-10
Secondary Focus:
Literary Text
ELACC8RL1-10
READ 180 NG workshop not
previously covered or
READ 180 Flex (Workshop 3) or
LBook
 1 extended informational
text
(choose one from R-180 library
or Outliers, The Story of
Success by Malcolm Gladwell)
as shown in DOE sample)
 6 thematically connected
short texts
READING
Primary Focus:
Literary Text
ELACC8RL1-10
Secondary Focus:
Informational Text
ELACC8RI1-10
READ 180 NG workshop not
previously covered or
READ 180 Flex (Workshop 2) or
LBook
 1 extended literary text
(choose one from R-180
library or The House of
Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer as
shown in DOE sample)
 6 thematically connected
short texts
5-Pillars for ELA & Literacy
Common Core Text Complexity
Lexile Ranges for 6th to 8th grade:

5-Pillars for ELA & Literacy
6 thematically connected
short texts
5-Pillars for ELA & Literacy
1.Text complexity
2.High quality text dependent
questions & tasks
3.Range and quality of texts
5.Writing and research that
4.Focus on academic and domain- analyze sources and deploy
specific vocabulary
evidence
R.Bernhardt, 8/2012
955-1155
READ 180 Reminders:

Give SRI to students
during first two weeks of
school
 Give rSkills test at end of
Workshop 1
(practice first)
 Consider text complexity
when students read
independently
 Strive to increase
complexity by reading all
of the thematically
connected stories in each
workshop
 Provide support to
students when using the
Stretch 1 or Stretch 2
readings
R.Bernhardt, 8/2012
READ 180 Reminders:

Give SRI test at end of
second 9 weeks
 Give rSkills test at end of
Workshop 3
(practice first)
 Consider text complexity
when students read
independently
 Chunk the text by having
students read a section of
the text and then respond
to one of the following
prompts: summary in your
own words, one
interesting thing, I
wonder…
 Ask text dependent
questions: Guide students
to read and reread text
closely by asking text
dependent questions such
as: What does the author
mean by?, Which
paragraph/section tells
about..?, How is ___ like
___?
READ 180 Reminders:

Give SRI test at end of third
9 weeks
 Give rSkills test at end of
Workshop 2
(practice first)
 Consider text complexity
when students read
independently and strive
to increase complexity
through the thematically
connected stories
 Have students locate textbased evidence to support
inferences, conclusions or
claims. Use frames or textmarking strategies to help
students take notes on key
evidence
READ 180 Reminders:

Give SRI test at end of
school year
 Give rSkills test at end of
Workshop 4
(practice first)
 Consider text complexity
when students read
independently and strive
to increase complexity
through the thematically
connected stories
CCGPS Focus:
WRITING
Focus: Argumentative




4-6 Argumentative
Analysis Essays
Research Connection
(Brief or sustained
inquiries related to the
texts or topics)
2-3 narratives to develop
real or imagined
experiences
Routine writing (notes,
summaries, process
journals, and short
responses across all
genres
READ 180 NG Focus for
Workshop 8 Writing
Conventions:
Personal narrative, using
adverbs, using quotation marks
R.Bernhardt, 8/2012
CCGPS Focus:
WRITING
Focus: Informative/Explanatory




4-6 Informative,
Explanatory analysis
essays
Research Connection
(Brief or sustained
inquiries related to the
texts or topics)
2-3 narratives to develop
real or imagined
experiences
Routine writing (notes,
summaries, process
journals, and short
responses across all
genres
READ 180 Flex Workshop 1
Writing Focus:
(Or choose NG workshop with
writing focus)
Expository paragraph, sentences
and fragments, end punctuation
CCGPS Focus:
WRITING
Focus: Informative/Explanatory




4-6 Informative,
Explanatory analysis essays
Research Connection
(Brief or sustained inquiries
related to the texts or
topics)
2-3 narratives to develop
real or imagined
experiences
Routine writing (notes,
summaries, process
journals, and short
responses across all genres
CCGPS Focus:
WRITING
Focus: Argumentative




4-6 Argumentative
Analysis Essays
Research Connection
(Brief or sustained
inquiries related to the
texts or topics)
2-3 narratives to develop
real or imagined
experiences
Routine writing (notes,
summaries, process
journals, and short
responses across all
genres
READ 180 Flex Workshop 3
Writing Focus:
(Or choose NG workshop with
writing focus)
READ 180 Flex Workshop 2
Writing Focus:
(Or choose NG workshop with
writing focus)
Literature response, connecting
run-on sentences, using correct
word order
Narrative paragraph, connecting
sentence fragments, using
capitals