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English language arts · 2017 framework
Grade 8 · 41 / 42 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ela-2017:RL.8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. |
| ela-2017:RL.8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze literary text development. |
| ela-2017:RL.8.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. |
| ela-2017:RL.8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | 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, mood, and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts. |
| ela-2017:RL.8.5 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:RL.8.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how differences in the points of view and perspectives of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create effects such as suspense or humor. |
| ela-2017:RL.8.7 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:RL.8.8 | Not applicable at this grade | (Not applicable to literature) |
| ela-2017:RL.8.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how a modern work of fiction alludes to themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, and religious literary texts, such as (but not limited to) the Bible and The Epic of Gilgamesh, including describing how the material is rendered new. |
| ela-2017:RL.8.10 | Provisional target; review pending | By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Build background knowledge and activate prior knowledge in order to make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that deepen understanding of the text. |
| ela-2017:RI.8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. |
| ela-2017:RI.8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze informational text development. |
| ela-2017:RI.8.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories). |
| ela-2017:RI.8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts. |
| ela-2017:RI.8.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept. |
| ela-2017:RI.8.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine an author's perspective or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints. |
| ela-2017:RI.8.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea. |
| ela-2017:RI.8.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced. |
| ela-2017:RI.8.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation. |
| ela-2017:RI.8.10 | Provisional target; review pending | By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. |
| ela-2017:W.8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. |
| ela-2017:W.8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. |
| ela-2017:W.8.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. |
| ela-2017:W.8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.) |
| ela-2017:W.8.5 | Provisional target; review pending | With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 8.) |
| ela-2017:W.8.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently, as well as to interact and collaborate with others. |
| ela-2017:W.8.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration. |
| ela-2017:W.8.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others, while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. |
| ela-2017:W.8.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. |
| ela-2017:W.8.10 | Provisional target; review pending | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. |
| ela-2017:SL.8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly. |
| ela-2017:SL.8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze the purpose of information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and evaluate the motives (e.g., social, commercial, political) behind its presentation. |
| ela-2017:SL.8.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence and identifying when irrelevant evidence is introduced. |
| ela-2017:SL.8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation. |
| ela-2017:SL.8.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest. |
| ela-2017:SL.8.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (See grade 8 Language standards 1 and 3 for specific expectations.) |
| ela-2017:L.8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. |
| ela-2017:L.8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. |
| ela-2017:L.8.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. |
| ela-2017:L.8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. |
| ela-2017:L.8.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. |
| ela-2017:L.8.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. |
Grade band 6-8 · 29 / 30 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources. |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze content-area-specific text development. |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Identify key steps in a text's description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered). |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies. |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally). |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author's perspective or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts). |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts. |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text. |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze the relationship between a primary and secondary source on the same topic. |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.10 | Provisional target; review pending | By the end of grade 8, read, comprehend, and respond to history/social studies texts in the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze content-area-specific text development. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to an understanding of the topic. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table). |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Distinguish among facts, reasoned judgment based on research findings, and speculation in a text. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Compare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia sources with that gained from reading a text on the same topic. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.10 | Provisional target; review pending | By the end of grade 8, read, comprehend, and respond to science/technical texts in the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.3 | Not applicable at this grade | (See note; not applicable as a separate requirement) |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.5 | Provisional target; review pending | With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others, while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.10 | Provisional target; review pending | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. |
English language arts · 2026 framework
Grade 8 · 45 / 46 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ela-2026:RL.8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Cite text evidence that strongly supports analysis of what a text states explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, quoting or paraphrasing as appropriate. |
| ela-2026:RL.8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze literary text development. |
| ela-2026:RL.8.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. |
| ela-2026:RL.8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Explain how words and phrases shape meaning and tone in a literary text. |
| ela-2026:RL.8.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Compare and contrast the structure of two or more literary texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style. |
| ela-2026:RL.8.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how differences in point of view and perspective between characters and the reader (e.g., developed through the use of dramatic irony) create effects such as suspense or humor. |
| ela-2026:RL.8.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama is aligned to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors. |
| ela-2026:RL.8.8 | Not applicable at this grade | (Not applicable to literature) |
| ela-2026:RL.8.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how a modern work of fiction alludes to themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works (e.g., the Bible and The Epic of Gilgamesh), including describing how the material is rendered new. |
| ela-2026:RL.8.10 | Provisional target; review pending | Read and comprehend grade-level literary text, with scaffolding as needed. Use prior knowledge and previous experiences in order to make text-to-self, text-to-text, or text-to-world connections and comparisons. |
| ela-2026:RI.8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Cite text evidence that strongly supports analysis of what an informational text states explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, quoting or paraphrasing as appropriate. |
| ela-2026:RI.8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze informational text development. |
| ela-2026:RI.8.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how an informational text makes connections and distinctions among individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories). |
| ela-2026:RI.8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Explain how words and phrases shape meaning and tone in an informational text. |
| ela-2026:RI.8.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze the structure of a specific paragraph in an informational text, including the role of particular sentences and text features in developing and refining a key concept. |
| ela-2026:RI.8.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine an author's perspective and/or purpose in an informational text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints. |
| ela-2026:RI.8.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different media (e.g., print or digital text, audio, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea. |
| ela-2026:RI.8.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Trace and evaluate the argument in an informational text. |
| ela-2026:RI.8.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how two or more informational texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact and/or interpretation. |
| ela-2026:RI.8.10 | Provisional target; review pending | Read and comprehend grade-level informational texts, with scaffolding as needed. Use prior knowledge and previous experiences in order to make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections and comparisons. |
| ela-2026:RF.8.3 | Provisional target; review pending | |
| ela-2026:RF.8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Read connected texts with sufficient fluency to support comprehension. |
| ela-2026:WF.8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Write fluently and legibly in manuscript and/or cursive, at a pace that supports sustained composition and notetaking. |
| ela-2026:WF.8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Apply knowledge of grade-appropriate morphological awareness, multisyllabic word construction, syllable division principles, and spelling rules (or generalizations) to encode words accurately. |
| ela-2026:W.8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Write argumentative pieces that include: |
| ela-2026:W.8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Write informative/explanatory pieces that include: |
| ela-2026:W.8.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Write narratives that develop real or imagined sequenced events that include: |
| ela-2026:W.8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. |
| ela-2026:W.8.5 | Provisional target; review pending | With gradually fading adult support, plan, revise, and edit writing to improve clarity, organization, and conventions (e.g., capitalization, punctuation, spelling), using feedback from adults or peers. |
| ela-2026:W.8.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Use a variety of digital skills (e.g. keyboarding) and tools (e.g. multimedia platforms) to produce and publish writing, present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently, and collaborate with others. |
| ela-2026:W.8.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Conduct independent research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) by: |
| ela-2026:W.8.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Gather and use relevant information from multiple print and digital resources. |
| ela-2026:W.8.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Use evidence from grade-appropriate literary or informational texts to support analysis, elaboration, reflection, and research. |
| ela-2026:W.8.10 | Provisional target; review pending | Write routinely in a single session and/or over multiple sessions; engage in planning, drafting, editing, and revising for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. |
| ela-2026:SL.8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Participate in discussions about eighth grade topics and texts in small groups or whole-class settings, following agreed upon rules. |
| ela-2026:SL.8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze the purpose of information presented in diverse media (e.g. video, audio, primary source document) and other formats (e.g. charts, tables, infographics) and evaluate the motives (e.g., social, commercial, political) behind its presentation. |
| ela-2026:SL.8.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, evaluating soundness of reasoning and the relevance, accuracy, and sufficiency of the evidence, and identify when irrelevant evidence is presented. |
| ela-2026:SL.8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Present claims and findings using: |
| ela-2026:SL.8.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Integrate multimedia components and visual displays into presentations when appropriate to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest. |
| ela-2026:SL.8.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal language when indicated or appropriate. |
| ela-2026:L.8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Know and apply formal American English grammar, usage, and mechanics when writing or speaking. |
| ela-2026:L.8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Know and apply formal American English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. |
| ela-2026:L.8.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. |
| ela-2026:L.8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown words or multiple-meaning words or phrases. |
| ela-2026:L.8.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. |
| ela-2026:L.8.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Use grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases acquired through reading, writing, listening, and speaking. |