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Grade 8 English Language Arts 📚

Ontario Curriculum (2023) · TDSB · Curated Video Lessons

Ontario's 2023 Grade 8 Language curriculum covers four key areas: Comprehension (reading and responding), Composition (writing), Foundations of Language (grammar and vocabulary), and Literacy Connections (media literacy). Each video below targets one of these areas with practical, engaging instruction.

Comprehension

📖 Reading Comprehension Strategies

Strong readers use active strategies — predicting, visualizing, questioning, inferring, and connecting — to construct meaning from texts. This Grade 8 comprehension lesson walks through how to approach unfamiliar texts, identify main ideas, draw inferences, and respond thoughtfully in written form — all core expectations in Ontario's Grade 8 Language curriculum.

  • Reading Strategies
  • Main Idea
  • Inference
  • Text Response

Source: WorksheetCloud

Foundations of Language

✏️ Literary Devices & Figurative Language

From simile and metaphor to alliteration, foreshadowing, and irony, literary devices are the tools authors use to create impact and convey meaning. This video explains 20 essential literary devices with memorable examples — a must-watch for both reading analysis and your own creative and analytical writing in Grade 8.

  • Simile & Metaphor
  • Alliteration
  • Foreshadowing
  • Irony

Source: English Literature Series

Composition

🖊️ Persuasive Writing

Writing to persuade is a key skill in Grade 8. Students learn to build arguments with a clear thesis, supporting evidence, and counterarguments, then present them with a strong voice and appropriate structure. This Grade 7/8 ELA lesson walks through the full structure of persuasive writing and how to make your argument compelling to your reader.

  • Thesis Statement
  • Evidence
  • Counterargument
  • Essay Structure

Source: ELA Series

Literacy Connections

📱 Media Literacy & Figurative Language

Grade 8 Literacy Connections asks students to critically analyze media — advertisements, social media posts, films, and news — for bias, intent, and technique. This lesson reinforces figurative language through a media lens, covering personification, onomatopoeia, simile, and metaphor as tools used across all media types to shape meaning and audience response.

  • Media Literacy
  • Personification
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Critical Thinking

Source: ESL Literary Devices

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