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Reading Standards for Literature—Grade 8
Reading Standards for Literature—Grade 8
Craft and Structure
4 Students will interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
RL.8.4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including but not limited to analogies or allusions to other texts.
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6 Students will analyze how point of view, perspective and purpose shape the content and style of a text.
RL.8.6. Analyze characters’ and readers’ perspectives and how the differences create effects, including but not limited to suspense, humor and empathy.
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Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
10 Students will read, comprehend and analyze complex literary texts independently and proficiently.
RL.8.10. By the end of the year, flexibly use a variety of comprehension strategies (i.e., questioning, monitoring, visualizing, inferencing, summarizing, synthesizing, using prior knowledge, determining importance) to read, comprehend and analyze grade-level appr
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Key Ideas and Details
1 Students will read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence to support conclusions drawn from the text.
RL.8.1. Cite relevant textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
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2 Students will determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; cite specific textual evidence, including summary, paraphrase and direct quotations, to support conclusions drawn from the text.
RL.8.2. Determine themes of a text, and analyze how they are developed through relationships of characters, setting and plot, citing textual evidence, paraphrasing or summarizing.
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3 Students will analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
RL.8.3. Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character or provoke a decision.
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Reading Standards for Informational Text—Grade 8
Reading Standards for Informational Text—Grade 8
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
10 Students will read, comprehend and analyze complex informational texts independently and proficiently.
RI.8.10. By the end of the year, flexibly use a variety of comprehension strategies (i.e., questioning, monitoring, visualizing, inferencing, summarizing, synthesizing, using prior knowledge, determining importance) to read, comprehend, and analyze grade-level app
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Craft and Structure
6 Students will analyze how point of view, perspective and purpose shape the content and style of a text.
RI.8.6. Determine an author’s perspective and purpose in a text, and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
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Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
8 Students will delineate and evaluate the argument, specific claims and evidence in a text, assessing the validity, reasoning, relevance and sufficiency.
RI.8.8. Identify and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
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Key Ideas and Details
1 Students will read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence to support conclusions drawn from the text.
RI.8.1. Cite relevant textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
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2 Students will determine central ideas of a text and analyze their development; cite specific textual evidence, including summary, paraphrase and direct quotations to support conclusions drawn from the text.
RI.8.2. Determine central ideas of a text, and analyze how they are developed through relationships of key details, citing textual evidence, paraphrasing or summarizing.
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Composition—Grade 8
Composition—Grade 8
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
5 Students will conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
C.8.5. Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating new avenues for inquiry.
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6 Students will gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source and integrate the information for the purposes of analysis, reflection and research while avoiding plagiarism.
C.8.6. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and, in order to reflect, analyze or complete short research projects, quote or paraphrase the data an
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Range of Writing
7 Students will compose routinely over extended and shorter time frames for a variety of tasks, purposes and audiences.
C.8.7. Compose routinely over extended time frames and shorter time frames for a variety of tasks, purposes and audiences.
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Text Types and Purposes
1 Students will compose arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
C.8.1. Compose arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
C.8.1.a. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.
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C.8.1.e. Establish and maintain a task appropriate writing style.
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C.8.1.g. With some guidance, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
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2 Students will compose informative and explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization and analysis of content.
C.8.2. Compose informative and/or explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts and information through the selection, organization and analysis of relevant content.
C.8.2.a. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.
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C.8.2.h. With some guidance, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
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3 Students will compose narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events, using effective technique, well-chosen details and well-structured event sequences.
C.8.3. Use narratives strategically in other modes of writing, utilizing effective technique, well-chosen details and well-structured sequences for an intended purpose.
C.8.3.a. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.
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C.8.3.g. With guidance, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting or trying a new approach.
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Language—Grade 8
Language—Grade 8
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
4 Students will use a variety of strategies to determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases, consulting reference material when appropriate. Students will acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases
L.8.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
L.8.4.a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
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L.8.4.b. Use Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word.
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L.8.4.c. Consult print and digital reference materials to find the pronunciation and determine or clarity the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
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5 Students will demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.8.5. Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.8.5.a. Interpret figurative language, including but not limited to irony, in context.
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L.8.5.b. Use the relationship between particular words to better understand each of the words.
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L.8.5.c. Distinguish among the connotations of words with similar denotations.
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Conventions of Standard English
2 Students will demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing.
L.8.2. When writing:
L.8.2.c. Demonstrate appropriate use of strategies and resources (print and electronic) to identify and correct spelling errors.
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