ELA 8th Grade Informational Text

Description

• Analyze how an informational text presents cause-and-effect relationships, recognizing faulty cause-and-effect descriptions

• Analyze the development of the central idea over the course of an informational text and how details support or clarify it

• Analyze the structure of a specific paragraph in an informational text and the contributions of individual sentences in developing and refining a key concept

• Analyze the impact of an author's specific word choices and use of language (e.g., analogies, allusions, idioms, puns, metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, and verbal irony) on meaning and tone of an informational text

• Analyze how an author responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints

• Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text and determine whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient

• Describe problems in an argument that affect its credibility (e.g., bias, unsupported inferences, outdated information)

• Read regularly and independently in eighth-grade-appropriate texts for sustained periods of time, increasing speed, stamina, and comprehension

• Analyze the characteristics and devices of different genres of informational texts, and describe how the characteristics influence a text