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