Study+Skills+and+Testing+Links

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Below you will find tons of practice and information to better prepare for the 8th grade EOG in reading. Given the difficulty of the new test and scoring, I would highly recommend investigating, especially the closer we get to testing in May.

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Online test practice for 8th grade:** [] [] [] [] [] []

Drawing conclusions: zodiac killer passage [] Tornado survivors []

Drawing/Making inferences []

Reading Comprehension [|*Practice reading passage] [|Practice Reading comprehension] [|Practice reading tests] [|practice test-mushrooms] [|a good practice for reading comprehension test]
 * [|Current Event News Stories for Reading Comprehension]

Author's Purpose [|Practice Author's Purpose] author's purpose game [] author's purpose battleship [] practice author's purpose (quiz/game) [] author's purpose (quiz/game) []

Word Puzzles [] []

Practice Writing Sentences/Paragraphs [|Avoiding elementary level sentences]

Proofreading/Grammar [|Proofreading game] []

Figurative Language "Fling the teacher" http://www.newton.k12.ks.us/tech/fling3.html Drag and Drop Metaphors [] Figurative Language Hangman [] Simile quiz []

comprehensive list of activities for ALL KINDS of fig. lang. []

idiom games (figures of speech like "I'm all ears") http://www.quia.com/mc/66234.html http://www.funbrain.com/idioms/ []

homophones/homographs http://www.quia.com/cb/96929.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/recognising/homophones/quiz.shtml http://www.quia.com/pop/3311.html?AP_rand=785607883 http://alexandria-es10.lausd.k12.ca.us/Staff_Pages/Henry_Anker/Mr_Anker_Tests_New/Language/Homophones/Homophones_Set_11a.swf http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/recognising/homophones/quiz.shtml http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/ww.cgi?A1=s&A2=2&A3=0 http://www.manythings.org/wbg/homonyms_3-sw.html []

synonyms and antonym games [] [] [] []

Analogies practice [|Analogies Jeopardy] (pretty good practice with relationships) [|Analogies Jeopardy 2](quick answer game-read carefully!) http://www.quia.com/pop/84864.html?AP_rand=935941926 (simple analogies) http://www.quia.com/rr/93836.html (advanced wordmasters analogies) http://www.quia.com/ba/37263.html (battleship for analogies) http://www.quia.com/hm/242970.html?AP_rand=287754978 (hangman analogies) http://www.quia.com/pop/14975.html?AP_rand=955694541 (fill in the blanks) http://www.quiz.com/quiz/168422.html?AP_rand=497487242 (analogies quiz)

Spelling Games [] []

Vocabulary [|Vocabulary Games for Sadlier Oxford]

8th grade skills (various subject areas) [|math, science, history, etc.]