Grade 8 » Reading – Informational Text

Description: Analyze and provide evidence of how the author’s choice of purpose or perspective shapes content, meaning, and style. Determine an author’s perspective or purpose and analyze how the author acknowledges or responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.

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Description: Analyze and critique how the author uses structures in print and multimedia texts to craft informational and argument writing. Analyze the impact of text features and structures on authors’ similar ideas or claims about the same topic.

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Description: Analyze and critique how the author uses structures in print and multimedia texts to craft informational and argument writing. 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.

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Description: Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, text features, conventions, and structures, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts. Determine figurative, connotative, and technical meanings of words and phrases used in a text; analyze the impact of specific words, phrases, analogies, or allusions on meaning and tone.

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Description: Summarize key details and ideas to support analysis of central ideas. Provide an objective summary of a text with two or more central ideas; cite key supporting details to analyze their development.

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