Substitute Plans · Grade 8
8th Grade Substitute Plans
Ten ready-made packets for grade 8 — five days of math and five of English language arts. Each is one class period, written to be run again for every section you teach, and each is ready to hand to a substitute with no preparation and no explanation.
Math
- Day 1 — Exponent Rules · free
- Day 2 — Multi-Step Linear Equations
- Day 3 — The Pythagorean Theorem
- Day 4 — Scientific Notation
- Day 5 — Slope and Rate of Change
English Language Arts
- Day 1 — What Tree Rings Remember · free
- Day 2 — The Wire That Ended Distance
- Day 3 — The Soil That Blew Away
- Day 4 — The Count That Needed a Machine
- Day 5 — The Drought That Changed the Beaks
What is in every period
Every packet is one class period — about 50 minutes across four blocks: a do now handed out at the door, worked examples or a reading passage, practice, and an exit ticket that is collected.
It is written to be run again for every section. The substitute reads the plan once and repeats the period, and the packet says what to cut when a period runs short and what has to come back whatever happens.
Page 2 is a section log: one ruled line for each of six periods, recording how far each class got. Nothing else on this site has one, because nothing else is taught more than once in a day.
Nothing needs preparing or looking up beyond the copies, and nothing depends on what the class was working on. The answer key and the marking notes are the last two pages.
At a glance
| Grade | Grade 8 |
| Packets | 10 — five days in each of two subjects |
| Pages each | 11 |
| Student working time | About 50 minutes, one class period |
| Run again | Yes — the same plan for every section |
| Preparation | None |
| Answer key | Included in every packet |