Standards in this strand:
Key Ideas and Details:
Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Grade 8 Oregon achieves. Introduction to the Oregon Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy Preparing Oregon’s Students When Oregon adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in October 2010, our state joined other states in the pursuit of a common, standards-based education for our students. May 7, 2017 - 6th grade ELA materials and resources for an entire school year covering more than 30 different skills. This 100+ page product is designed to help your students master a variety of different skills throughout an entire school year. Below, I've highlighted the different skills, activities, and asse. ELA Primary Focus: The primary focus of this class will build on last year's accomplishments by maintaining and refining skills already mastered in usage and mechanicswhile developing more sophistication in literary analysis and written composition (especially expository writing). ELA is comprised of two divisions: Language and Reading/Literature.
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
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.
Craft and Structure:
8th Grade Reading List
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 analogies or allusions to other texts.
Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.
Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors.
(RL.8.8 not applicable to literature)
Reading8th Grade Ela Page
Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.
Reading 8th Grade Practice
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:
Reading 8th Grade Ela Page 18
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.