ELA 8th Grade Language

Description

• Use grade-appropriate general academic and content-area vocabulary correctly in context, expanding vocabulary to include words or phrases of particular importance to comprehension or expression (e.g., molecule, illuminate)

• Use knowledge of increasingly sophisticated word relationships, including analogies (e.g., descriptive qualities; window: transparent :: mirror: reflective), to clarify the meanings of words in a text

• Identify and analyze the connotations of words or phrases that have similar denotative meanings (e.g., fancy/gaudy/intricate/elaborate/overly complicated)