Grade 08 ELA - EC: E08.B-K.1.1.3
Grade 08 ELA - EC: E08.B-K.1.1.3
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 key individuals, ideas, and events in an informational text.
- Define comparisons, analogies, and categories.
- Explain how key events, people, and ideas interact and impact one another in an informational text.
- Identify the connections among the ideas, individuals, and events an author makes in an informational text.
- Analyze the relationship between ideas, individuals, and events in an informational text.
- Evaluate an author’s use of comparisons, analogies, and/or categories to show connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events in an informational text.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Student identifies key individuals, ideas, and events in an informational text. Using direct text evidence, the student correctly identifies the subject, content, and focus of an informational text.
- Student defines comparisons, analogies, and categories.
- Comparisons: Similarities and differences in information
- Analogy: An extended and complex comparison that explains or describes something by emphasizing a feature it has in common with something else
- Categories: Groupings of information in a text by a common feature or idea
- Student explains how key events, people, and ideas interact and impact one another in an informational text. Using direct text evidence, the student correctly explains the relationship among the subject, content, and focus of an informational text. The student uses evidence from multiple sections of a text to explain interactions and impact of the information.
- Student identifies the connections and distinctions among the ideas, individuals, and events an author makes in an informational text. Using direct text evidence, the student identifies the information an author connects and how the connection is made. The student follows a similar process to identify distinctions that show differences in the information of a text.
- Student analyzes the relationship between ideas, individuals, and events in an informational text. The student synthesizes information to compare and contrast key concepts presented in a text. The analysis correctly identifies and describes the strategy used by an author to bring together information. These strategies may include comparisons and analogies.
- Student evaluates an author’s use of comparisons, analogies, and/or categories to show connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events in an informational text. The student states a position regarding the effectiveness of strategies used by an author to show connections and interactions within a text.
