8th Grade ELA Targeted Standards (RL) Reading Literature Strand Cluster: Key Ideas and Details
ELA-08.RL.03 Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
Student Learning Targets for Grade 8 ELA:
Knowledge Targets
I can recognize or recall specific terminology, such as: dialogue, analyze, dialect, characterization, static, dynamic.
I can identify particular lines of dialogue in a story or drama that reveals aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
I can recall particular incidents in a story or drama that propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
Reasoning Targets
I can discuss how particular lines of dialogue in a story or drama reveal aspects of a character or provoke a decision.
I can analyze particular incidents in a story or drama that propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
Skills (Performance) Targets
I can use specific terminology, such as: dialogue, analyze, dialect, characterization, static, dynamic, when discussing literature.
Product Targets
I can create a product, written or spoken, that reveals my knowledge of how dialogue and incidents in literature contribute to plot and character development.
Student Learning Targets for Grade 8 Reading Pro:
Knowledge Targets
I can recognize the significance and effects of foreshadowing and flashbacks.
I can identify the setting, characters, resolution/solution and events of a fiction text using specific details.
Reasoning Targets
I can analyze the setting, characters, resolution/solution and events of a fiction text using specific details.
Skills (Performance) Targets
I can appraise and explore the setting, characters, and events of a fiction text using specific details.
Product Targets
I can construct a story map using the setting, characters, resolution/solution, events, and theme of a text to show how the incidents in that text propelled the action, revealed aspects of a character, or provoked a decision.
I can generate an essay using the setting, characters, resolution/solution, events, and theme of a text to show how the incidents in that text propelled the action, revealed aspects of a character, or provoked a decision.
Proficiency Scale for Grade 8 ELA:
Score
RL 8.3 Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
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.
discuss how particular lines of dialogue in a story or drama reveals aspects of a character or provoke a decision.
analyze particular incidents in a story or drama that propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
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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 will:
recognize or recall specific terminology, such as: dialogue, analyze, dialect, characterization, static, dynamic.
identify particular lines of dialogue in a story or drama that reveals aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
determine or recall particular incidents in a story or drama that propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
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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.
Using a higher level text, the student will analyze the setting, characters, and resolution; the student is also able to compare and contrast the characters of a text.
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 analyze the setting, characters, resolution/solution and events of a fiction text using specific details.
can appraise and explore the characters, setting, and events of a fiction text using specific details.
can construct a story map using the setting, characters, resolution/solution, events, and theme based on a fiction text.
The student exhibits no major errors or omissions.
Using a grade level text, the student will analyze the setting, characters, and resolution.
The student will compare and contrast the characters of a text.
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:
character, resolution, solution, drama, element, plot, and setting.
performs basic processes, such as:
identifies the basic elements of a story or drama.
However, the student exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes.
The student will identify the characters in a text.
The student can explain the resolution of 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).
