8th Grade ELA Targeted Standards (RL) Reading Literature Strand Cluster: Key Ideas and Details
ELA-08.RL.02 Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas.
Student Learning Targets for Grade 8 ELA:
Knowledge Targets
I can understand the difference between plot and theme.
I can differentiate between a topic and a theme.
I can continue to improve my knowledge of literary elements.
I can recognize literary techniques authors use to create a story.
I can determine how the plot and theme develop throughout a story.
I can identify the setting, characters, resolution/solution and events of a fiction text using specific details.
I can define objective summary and identify the key ideas to put into a summary.
Reasoning Targets
I can analyze the importance of literary elements and how they make a story engaging.
I can identify literary elements and support with examples from text.
I can analyze the setting, characters, resolution/solution and events of a fictional text using specific details.
I can question, predict, infer, connect, relate, and evaluate literature.
I can determine a theme of a work and support that theme with details from the text.
I can explain how theme relates to the characters, setting, and plot.
Skills (Performance) Targets
I can find examples of literary elements with a text.
I can compare and contrast the characters, setting, and events of a fictional text using specific details.
I can provide an objective summary of a story.
Product Targets
I can produce a story map using the setting, characters, resolution/solution, events, and theme based on a fictional text.
I can respond to literature and support my response.
Student Learning Targets for Grade 8 Reading Pro:
Knowledge Targets
I can define theme and summary.
Reasoning Targets
I can analyze the theme in a text.
Skills (Performance) Targets
I can explore and analyze the theme's development over the course.
I can write an objective summary of the text.
Product Targets
I can devise an argument to support my claim of a theme in a text.
Proficiency Scale for Grade 8 ELA:
Score
8.RL.02 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
Sample Activity
4.0
In addition to Score 3.0, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding more complex material that go beyond end of instruction expectations.
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3.5
In addition to Score 3.0 performance, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding the more complex content with partial success.
3.0
“The Standard.” The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding any of the information and processes that were end of instruction expectations.
The student can
determine the theme of the text.
analyze the development of a theme in a text.
explain how the theme relates to characters, setting, plot, and supporting details.
provide an objective summary of a grade-appropriate text.
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2.5
The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and partial knowledge of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
2.0
The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
The student can
determine the theme of the text when given choices.
attempt to analyze the development of a theme in a text.
attempt to explain how the theme relates to characters, setting, plot, and supporting details.
provide a summary with unnecessary details or omissions of a grade-appropriate text.
- Given five options of theme choose three that are in the story you are reading
1.5
The student demonstrates partial knowledge of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and procedures (Score 3.0 content).
1.0
With help, the student demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and some of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
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0.5
With help, the student demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but not the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
Proficiency Scale for Grade 8 Reading Pro
Score
Description
Sample Activity
4.0
In addition to Score 3.0, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding more complex material that go beyond end of instruction expectations.
The student will analyze a theme of a higher level text. The student is also able to support his/her claims for that theme.
3.5
In addition to Score 3.0 performance, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding the more complex content with partial success.
3.0
“The Standard.” The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding any of the information and processes that were end of instruction expectations.
The student:
can explore and analyze a theme’s development over the course of the text.
can write an objective summary of the text.
can devise an argument to support my claim of a theme in a text .
The student exhibits no major errors or omissions.
Using a grade level text, the student will write a summary of a text and analyze a theme of the text.
The student can also devise an argument to support their claims on the theme.
2.5
The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and partial knowledge of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
2.0
There are no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes as the student:
recognizes or recalls specific terminology, such as:
theme and summary
performs basic processes, such as:
somewhat describe a theme’s development over the course of the text.
However, the student exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes.
Identify a theme in a text.
1.5
The student demonstrates partial knowledge of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and procedures (Score 3.0 content).
1.0
With help, the student demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and some of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
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0.5
With help, the student demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but not the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
Resources
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Vocabulary
Theme: a full statement that reveals the message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader
