Grade 8 » Reading

Description: Determine central ideas (RI) or themes (RL) of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. 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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Description: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text. Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events.

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Description: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.

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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. 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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Description: Assess how point of view, perspective, or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. 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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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. 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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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. Cite 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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Description: Determine central ideas (RI) or themes (RL) of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. 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; provide an objective summary of the text.

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

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Description: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.

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