Eighth Grade Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details
Essential Questions:
1. Why do readers read?
2. How do readers construct meaning?
Essential Vocabulary: objective, summary, interact, cite, textual evidence, explicit, inferences , analyze, character, setting, plot, interact, dialogue,
categories, analogies, plot(exposition, rising and falling action, climax and resolution, internal and external conflict), direct and indirect
characterization
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 1 for Reading: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical
inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
RL.8.1 Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the
text.
Grade 8 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
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Students will know…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• cite textual evidence that
• that inferences and
Students will…
best supports analyses and
analyses require textual
• objective
inferences drawn from
support.
• identify and cite several
• summary
text.
pieces of textual evidence
• that some textual evidence
• interact
to support analyses and
may be stronger than other
• cite
inferences.
textual evidence.
• textual evidence
• explicit
• inferences
• analyze
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 2 for Reading: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development;
summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
RL.8.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the
characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
Grade 8 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
Students will know…
Students will understand…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• identify and analyze a
• that theme is developed
Students will…
theme and explain how it is
over the course of a text,
• character
developed over the course
taking into account
• identify a theme and
• setting
of the text.
character,
setting,
plot.
explain how it is developed
• plot
over the course of the text.
• provide an objective
• that a summary must be
summary of the text.
objective.
• give an objective summary
of the text.
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College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 3 for Reading: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over
the course of a text.
RL.8.3: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, cultures, or events (e.g., through
comparisons, analogies, or categories).
Grade 8 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
Students will understand…
Students will know…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• make connections and
• that dialogue and incidents
Students will…
distinctions in story
propel the action, reveal
• interact
elements.
aspects of character, and
• dialogue
• analyze how and why
provoke
decisions.
•
analyze how dialogue and
•
categories
characters, events, ideas,
incidents propel action,
• analogies
and setting develop and
reveal aspects of a
•
plot(exposition,
rising
and
interact over the course
character, and provoke
falling action, climax and
of a text.
decisions.
resolution, internal and
external conflict)
• direct and indirect
characterization
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 Eighth Grade Reading Standards for Literature Text: Craft and Structure
Essential Questions:
• How does word choice impact the overall meaning of the text?
• How does the author’s use of structure affect the meaning of the text?
• How does the author’s point of view and purpose shape and direct the text?
Essential Vocabulary: analogy, allusion, sound devices, alliteration, rhyme, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, prose, compare, contrast,
dramatic irony, suspense
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 4 for Reading: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining
technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
RL.8.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the
impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Grade 8 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
Students will understand…
Students will know…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• analyze the impact of word
• that words and phrases can
Students will…
choice on meaning and
have multiple meanings,
• analogy
tone.
including figurative and
• distinguish the author’s
• allusion
connotative.
intended meaning of words
• provide analogies or
• sound devices
and phrases as they are
allusions to other texts in
• that word choice impacts
• alliteration
used in the text.
an analysis.
meaning and tone.
• rhyme
• evaluate the effects of
• assonance
sound devices in literature.
• consonance
• onomatopoeia
• prose
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 5 for Reading: Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs,
and larger portions of the text (e.g. a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
RL.8.5: Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning
and style.
Grade 8 Enduring Understandings
Students will know…
Students will be able to…
Students will understand…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• compare and contrast the
• that text structures
Students will…
structure of two or more
contribute to meaning and
• compare
texts.
style.
• analyze the poem or
• contrast
drama’s structure.
• analyze how the differing
text structures contribute to
• explain how the structure
meaning and style of each
of the text contributes to
text.
the meaning.
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College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 6 for Reading: Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
RL.8.6: Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic
irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.
Grade 8 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
Students will understand…
Students will know…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• that differences exist
• analyze how differences
Students will…
• dramatic irony
between the points of view
in points of view of
of characters and
• identify the devices an
• suspense
characters and the
audience/readers, and
author uses to develop
audience or reader create
these differences can be
characters and their points
suspense or humor.
used to create suspense or
of view.
humor.
• compare and contrast the
points of view of different
characters and narrators in
a text.
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 Eighth Grade Reading Standards for Literature: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Essential Questions:
• How does analyzing diverse media help us to build our own knowledge?
• How does the use of evidence impact the author’s claim?
• How does analyzing more than one text help us to interpret the author’s intent and build our knowledge?
Essential Vocabulary: production, script, director, actor, drama, theme, pattern of events, character types, myths, traditional stories, religious
works
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 7 for Reading: Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats,
including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
RL.8.7: Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating
the choices made by the director or actors.
Grade 8 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
Students will understand…
Students will know…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• analyze the extent to which
• that filmed or live
Students will…
a specific medium departs
productions may differ
• production
from text and evaluate the
from the text or script and
• compare and contrast
• script
choices made by the
that these choices are made
different mediums to show
• director
director or actors.
by directors or actors.
how each medium
• actors
influences the subject.
• drama
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 8 for Reading: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the
validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
RL.8.8 (Not applicable to literature)
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 9 for Reading: Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build
knowledge or to compare the approaches the author takes.
(IEFA)RL.8.9: Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or
religious works, such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new. Include texts by and about American Indians.
Prior Background Knowledge
Required:
Students will…
• compare and contrast
historical accounts within
the same time periods.
• use time, place, or
characters to explain how
authors use or alter history
including accounts by and
about American Indians.
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 Grade 8 Enduring Understandings
Students will understand…
Students will know…
Vocabulary:
• that modern works of
fiction often draw from
• theme
preexisting works, familiar
• patterns of events
patterns, character types,
• character types
and themes.
• myths
• traditional stories
• religious works
Students will be able to…
• analyze how modern
works draw from
preexisting works, familiar
patterns, character types,
and themes, including texts
by and about American
Indians.
• describe how material has
been changed (rendered
new).
Eighth Grade Reading Standards for Literature: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Essential Questions:
• How does reading add meaning to your life?
• How do readers adapt when text becomes more complex?
Essential Vocabulary:
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 10 for Reading: Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently
and proficiently.
RL.8.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 6–8 text
complexity band independently and proficiently.
Grade 8 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
Students will know…
Students will understand…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• read self-selected and
• that in order to read at their
Students will…
assigned literary text
grade level, they must
independently and
practice reading
• read self-selected and
proficiently at the high end
independently.
assigned literary text
of grades 6-8 band.
independently and
• that as text complexity
proficiently at the high end
increases, a variety of
• establish and or maintain a
of grades 6-8 band with
reading habit.
strategies may be used to
scaffolding as needed at the
increase comprehension.
• read a wide variety of texts
high end range.
for a variety of purposes
• establish and or maintain a
including pleasure.
reading habit.
• read a wide variety of texts
for a variety of purposes
including pleasure.
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013