8th Grade Honors Reading is aligned with the Common Core State Standards which include College and Career Readiness standards. The purpose of this course is to enable students to develop and strengthen advanced skills and strategies through integrated experiences in speaking, listening, reading, writing, researching and thinking skills. Emphasis will be on inference, application, analysis, and evaluation of content from varied texts including narrative and informational text. In this course, students will encounter challenging texts, discussions and writing. Therefore, students in this course are expected to be avid readers and sophisticated writers. A highly qualified reading specialist will provide instruction in this course. In addition, students in this course have consistently demonstrated that they are working above grade level in the English Language Arts.