Grade 08 ELA - Standard: CC.1.4.8.M
Grade 08 ELA - Standard: CC.1.4.8.M
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 genre features of narratives as a writing genre.
- Locate experiences or events represented in written narratives.
- Apply the genre specific features of narratives to construct a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events.
- Determine an organizational structure to develop real or imagined experiences or events in a written narrative.
- Construct a multi-paragraph narrative that develops real or imagined experiences or events in a compelling way.
- Evaluate the effective use of language and organization of a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Student identifies the genre features of narratives as a writing genre. Elements of narratives include, but are not limited to, plot structure, narrator, characters, and setting.
- Student locates and determines the experiences or events represented in written narratives. The determination is made through identifying specific evidence used to represent experiences or events from the narrative’s plot, narrator, characters, or setting.
- Student constructs a narrative by introducing a narrator, characters, setting, and establishing a plot. Other narrative techniques used in the construction of narratives include, but are not limited to, dialogue, pacing, descriptions, and reflection.
- Student determines an organizational structure to develop real or imagined experiences or events in a written narrative. The organization includes a plot structure and an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically. The organization is also reflected in the use of a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to show sequence, signal shifts in time, and to express the relationship among experiences and events. The organization is further developed by the inclusion of a conclusion that follows from and provides a reflection on the experiences or events of the narrative.
- Student constructs a multi-paragraph narrative that develops real or imagined experiences or events in a compelling way by establishing a context and a point of view of the narrative. This context and point of view is revealed to the reader of the narrative through the narrative voice, narrator, plot, characters, setting, and overall theme of the narrative. The narrative constructed includes dialogue, logical pacing of events, descriptions, and reflections woven throughout the piece. The narrative may also include character depth revealed through character traits and plot structure that includes a conflict and solution.
- Student evaluates the effective use of language and organization of a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events. The student determines whether the plot structure and event sequence of the narrative unfolds naturally and logically. The evaluation also includes an analysis of the words and phrases including, but not limited to, descriptive details and sensory language to develop the experiences and events described in the narrative.
