Grade 08 ELA - EC: E08.C.1.3.5
Grade 08 ELA - EC: E08.C.1.3.5
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 a writer’s purpose for writing a narrative text.
- Identify the purpose of a concluding section in narrative writing.
- Identify the relationship between a concluding section and other sections of a written narrative.
- Distinguish a concluding section from other sections of a written narrative.
- Construct a concluding section for a written narrative that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.
- Evaluate the concluding section of a written narrative to determine if it logically follows from and effectively reflects on the narrated experiences or events.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Student identifies a writer’s purpose for writing a narrative text. The purpose of a written narrative is to convey to a reader real or imagined events through genre specific elements. Genre specific elements of narratives include, but are not limited to, plot structure, narrator, characters, and setting. A writer’s purpose for writing a narrative text may also include informing or entertaining the audience.
- Student identifies the purpose of a concluding section in narrative writing. The concluding section of a narrative provides a reflection and a resolution to the events and experiences described by a writer. The reflection involves a character or subject reflecting on the significance of the events and/or experiences described in a narrative. The purpose of a resolution is to bring the narrative’s plot, situations, and conflicts to a logical end.
- Student identifies the relationship between a concluding section and other sections of a written narrative. The concluding section of a written narrative relates to the other sections because it follows from and resolves the ideas, plot events, situations, and characters that are developed by a writer in other sections of the story.
- Student distinguishes a concluding section from other sections of a written narrative. A concluding section is distinct from other sections of a written narrative because the writer avoids introducing new situations, events, or characters in the conclusion that have not been previously introduced to the reader. This would result in an unsatisfying conclusion because the audience of the piece is left with unresolved information.
- Student constructs a concluding section for a written narrative that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events. The concluding section constructed displays evidence of thoughtful choices made by the student to rationally resolve and reflect on the experiences and events in the written narrative. These choices include the use of deliberately selected descriptive and sensory language.
- Student evaluates the concluding section of a written narrative to determine if it logically follows from and effectively reflects on the narrated experiences or events. Using direct evidence from a concluding section to a written narrative, the student considers whether or not the section follows from and resolves the ideas, plot events, situations, and characters that are developed by a writer in other sections of the story.
