pbWORKBOOK FEATURES bbr- Ages 13-14, Grade 8 br- 160 pages, 10.7 inches x 8.3 inches br- Engaging fiction and nonfiction passagesbr- Passage reviews and exercisesbr- Answer key included pbFOCUSED PRACTICE b Spectrum's Eight Grade Reading Workbook provides focused close reading practice to strengthen your eighth grader's ability to understand, process, and analyze fiction and nonfiction passages. This 160-page illustrated workbook helps kids enhance their reading comprehension skills through engaging texts and discussion questions. pbCORRELATED TO CURRENT STATE STANDARDS b This standards-based workbook helps your child build fluency and proficiency in essential reading concepts, including determining a theme or central idea of a story, analyzing theme development, citing textual evidence, using context clues, connotative, and technical words and phrases, and writing informative texts using relevant content from a specific text. pbHOW IT WORKS b Each new reading lesson is introduced with