Grade 08 ELA - Standard: CC.1.4.8.G
Grade 08 ELA - Standard: CC.1.4.8.G
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Grade Levels
8th Grade
Course, Subject
English Language Arts
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- Identify the purpose and function of claims within written arguments.
- Identify written arguments used to support claims.
- Organize arguments within a piece of writing to support claims.
- Identify the relationship among specific claims, reasons, and evidence.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of claims within argumentative writing.
- Explain how a writer uses specific claims to support and develop an argument.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Student identifies the purpose and function of claims within written arguments. The purpose of a claim within a written argument includes providing declarative statement to substantiate an assertion. Student distinguishes claims within a written argument from evidence used to support a claim. The identification acknowledges and distinguishes the claim from alternate or opposing claims that may be included in an argument.
- Student identifies written arguments used to support claims. The identification of these arguments is related to the identification of an author’s purpose to present a position on a particular topic or idea. Student identifies the evidence used to support a claim.
- Student organizes arguments within a piece of writing to best support claims. Supporting argumentative evidence is organized and presented in a written piece to strongly support the claims. The student uses deliberately selected words, phrases, and clauses to organize arguments.
- Student identifies the relationship among specific claims, reasons, and evidence. Student determines the relationship among claims, reasons and evidence by matching arguments to the claims they support. The student identifies specific words, phrases, and clauses within the written argument to clarify the relationship among claims, reasons, and evidence.
- Student evaluates the effectiveness of various claims within argumentative writing. The evaluation of effectiveness includes the establishment of a strong position supported by evidence that provides the best arguments to support claims. The evaluation may include an analysis of the supporting evidence, organization, and voice of a written argument in order to explain the effectiveness of various claims.
- Student explains the craft of a writer to use specific claims to support an argument. The explanation of a writer’s craft includes an understanding of a writer point of view and purpose when writing arguments to support claims. Student also explains tone and voice as elements of a writer’s craft to effectively write arguments to support claims.
