Grade 08 ELA - EC: E08.D.1.1.8
Grade 08 ELA - EC: E08.D.1.1.8
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
- List different tenses of verbs.
- Identify appropriate shifts in verb tense.
- Compare the meaning of a sentence with correct shifts in verb tense to a sentence with inappropriate shifts in verb tense.
- Recognize inappropriate shifts in verb tense in a text.
- Construct original sentences with correct shifts in verb tense.
- Revise sentences with inappropriate shifts in verb tense.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Student lists different tenses of verbs.
- Present Tense: I talk
- Past Tense: I talked
- Future Tense: I will talk
- Present Perfect Tense: I have talked
- Past Perfect Tense: I had talked
- Future Perfect Tense: I shall have talked
- Student identifies appropriate shifts in verb tense. This student correctly recognizes verbs change tenses depending on the time an action or a state of being occurs. Verb tenses are used to signify if an action occurs in the present, past, or future.
- Student compares the meaning of a sentence with correct shifts in verb tense to a sentence with inappropriate shifts in verb tense. The student’s comparison correctly recognizes that clarity and meaning are not maintained in sentences with inappropriate shifts in verb tense.
- Student recognizes inappropriate shifts in verb tense in a text. Inappropriate shifts in verb tense incorrectly signifies the time an action or a state of being occurs
- Student constructs original sentences with correct shifts in verb tense. The student constructs sentences that use the appropriate verb tense to correctly signify the time an action or a state of being occurs.
- Student revises sentences with inappropriate shifts in verb tense. For example, the student correctly revises sentences to maintain a clear relationship between a verb tense used and time.
