Grade 8 » Author's purpose and craft
Description:
Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts
Author's purpose and craft
Description:
The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances.
8.9.A
Description:
Explain the author's purpose and message within a text.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
8.9.B
Description:
Analyze how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
8.9.C
Description:
Analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
8.9.D
Description:
Describe how the author's use of figurative language such as extended metaphor achieves specific purposes.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
8.9.E
Description:
Identify and analyze the use of literary devices, including multiple points of view and irony.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
8.9.F
Description:
Analyze how the author's use of language contributes to the mood, voice, and tone.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
8.9.G
Description:
Explain the purpose of rhetorical devices such as analogy and juxtaposition and of logical fallacies such as bandwagon appeals and circular reasoning.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts