elar
grade 8
grade 8
| Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking | |||
| 8.2 | Vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively. | ||
| 8.3 | Fluency. The student reads grade-level text with fluency and comprehension. | ||
| Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts | |||
| 8.5 | Comprehension. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts. | ||
| Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts | |||
| 8.7 | Literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts. | ||
| 8.8 | Genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts. | ||
| 8.9 | Author’s purpose and craft. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors’ choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author’s craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances. | ||
| Tools to Know – Reading Process, Comprehension Ways to Show – Genre Characteristics, Overall Meaning, Analysis for Deeper Meaning Author’s Craft – Point of View, Structure, Language Responding to Text |
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| 8.4 | Self-sustained reading. Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking. The student reads grade-appropriate texts independently. | ||
| 8.6 | Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. | ||
| Self-Sustained Reading Responding to Text |
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| Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts | |||
| 8.10 | Writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. | ||
| 8.11 | Genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful. | ||
| Tools to Know – Writing Process Ways to Show – Writing Application |
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