Grade 8 » Reading


Key Ideas and Details

R.1

Description: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
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R.2

Description: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
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R.3

Description: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
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Craft and Structure

R.4

Description: 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.
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R.5

Description: Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
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R.6

Description: Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
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Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

R.8

Description: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
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Informational Text

RI.8.2

Description: Key Ideas and Details
Determine a central idea and subtopics of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including their relationship to supporting ideas; restate and summarize the central idea or events, in correct sequence when necessary, after reading a text.
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RI.8.3

Description: Key Ideas and Details
Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
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RI.8.4

Description: Craft and Structure
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
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RI.8.5

Description: Craft and Structure
Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept.
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RI.8.6

Description: Craft and Structure
Determine an author’s purpose (to inform, persuade, entertain, critique, etc.) and point of view in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
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RI.8.8

Description: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text (e.g., identify bias and propaganda techniques, well‐supported logical arguments), assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
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Literature

RL.8.1

Description: 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.
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RL.8.2

Description: Key Ideas and Details
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; restate and summarize main ideas or events, in correct sequence, after reading a text.
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RL.8.3

Description: Key Ideas and Details
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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RL.8.4

Description: Craft and Structure
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.
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✓ SeeReader
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RL.8.6

Description: Craft and Structure
Analyze author’s purpose and 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.
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