ELA Standard Course of Study

READING STANDARDS FOR LITERATURE

Key Ideas and Evidence

RL.8.1 Cite text to support inferences from stories and poems.

RL.8.2 Recount an event related to the theme, including details about character and setting.

RL.8.3 Identify which incidents in a story or drama lead to subsequent action.

Craft and Structure

RL.8.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text; determine how different word choices would change the meaning

RL.8.5 Compare the structure of two or more texts.

RL.8.6 Determine the difference in the points of view of a character and the audience or reader in a text with suspense or humor.

Integration of Ideas and Analysis

RL.8.7 Compare a text version of a story or drama with a video or live version of the same text.

RL.8.9 Compare themes, patterns of events, and characters across two or more stories or dramas.

READING STANDARDS FOR INFORMATIONAL TEXT

Key Ideas and Evidence

RI.8.1 Cite text to support inferences from informational text.

RI.8.2 Determine the theme or central idea of a text and select details that relate to it.

RI.8.3 Sequence events in the order they were presented in the text. Craft and Structure

RI.8.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text; determine how different word choices would change the meaning.

RI.8.5 Locate the topic sentence and supporting details in a paragraph.

RI.8.6 Determine an author’s purpose or point of view and identify examples from text that describe or support it. Integration of Ideas and Analysis

RI.8.7 Determine whether a topic is best presented as audio, video, multimedia, or text.

RI.8.8 Identify the argument in a text and claims that support it.

RI.8.9 Identify ways that two authors writing about the same topic disagree or present conflicting information.