Grade 8 » Reading for All Purposes
Analyze and evaluate literary elements and an author’s choices to understand literary text.
RW.8.2.1.a.i
Description:
Use Key Ideas and Details to:
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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RW.8.2.1.a.ii
Description:
Use Key Ideas and Details to:
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.
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RW.8.2.1.a.iii
Description:
Use Key Ideas and Details to:
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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RW.8.2.1.b.i
Description:
Use Craft and Structure to:
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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Analyze and evaluate an author’s choices to understand informational text.
RW.8.2.2.a.ii
Description:
Use Key Ideas and Details to:
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
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RW.8.2.2.a.iii
Description:
Use Key Ideas and Details to:
Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (for example: through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
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RW.8.2.2.b.i
Description:
Use Craft and Structure to:
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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RW.8.2.2.b.ii
Description:
Use Craft and Structure to:
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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RW.8.2.2.b.iii
Description:
Use Craft and Structure to:
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
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RW.8.2.2.c.ii
Description:
Use Integration of Knowledge and Ideas to:
Delineate 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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Apply knowledge of word structure, grammar, and context to determine the meaning of new words and phrases in increasingly complex texts.
RW.8.2.3.a.i
Description:
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Use context (for example: 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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RW.8.2.3.b.i
Description:
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Interpret figures of speech (for example: verbal irony, puns) in context.
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RW.8.2.3.c
Description:
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
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