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.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
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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✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
R.3
Description:
Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
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✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
Craft and Structure
R.4
Description:
Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings; analyze how specific word choices shape meaning and/or tone.
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✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
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, stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
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✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
R.6
Description:
Assess how point of view, perspective, and/or purpose shape the content and style of a text.
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✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
R.8
Description:
Analyze 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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✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
Reading Standards for Informational Text
RI.8.2
Description:
Key Ideas and Details
Examine a grade-appropriate informational text. Provide an objective summary of the text. Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
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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✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
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 when applicable.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
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.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
RI.8.6
Description:
Craft and Structure
Determine an author's point of view, perspective, and/or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
RI.8.8
Description:
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Analyze 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.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
Reading Standards for 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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✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
RL.8.2
Description:
Key Ideas and Details
Examine a grade-appropriate literary text. Provide an objective summary. Determine a theme of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
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.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
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/or tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts when applicable.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts