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Standards
Oregon English/Language Arts Standards: 8th Grade
This Poetry, Short Stories and a Novel course addresses the Oregon English/Language Arts standards shown below. The numbering scheme is that used by the Oregon Department of Education. Material in italics is eligible for statewide assessment.
READING
CCG: Listen to and Read Informational and Narrative Text:
Listen to, read, and understand a wide variety of informational and narrative text across the subject areas at school and on own, applying comprehension strategies as needed.
CCG: Informational Text: Demonstrate General Understanding:
Demonstrate general understanding of grade-level informational text across the subject areas.
EL.08.RE.17 Identify and/or summarize sequence of events, main ideas, facts, supporting details, and opinions in informational and practical selections.
EL.08.RE.18 Clarify understanding of informational texts by creating detailed outlines, graphic organizers, diagrams, logical notes, or summaries.
CCG: Informational Text: Develop an Interpretation:
Develop an interpretation of grade-level informational text across the subject areas.
EL.08.RE.19 Predict probable future outcomes supported by the text, including foreshadowing clues.
EL.08.RE.20 Determine an author's implicit and explicit assumptions and beliefs about a subject based on evidence in the selection.
EL.08.RE.21 Infer the main idea when it is not explicitly stated, and support with evidence from the text.
CCG: Informational Text: Examine Content and Structure:
Examine content and structure of grade-level informational text across the subject areas.
EL.08.RE.22 Determine the author's purpose and perspective and relate them to specific details in the text.
EL.08.RE.23 Note and analyze instances of unsupported inferences, deceptive reasoning, persuasion, and propaganda in text.
EL.08.RE.24 Compare and contrast information on the same topic after reading several passages or articles.
EL.08.RE.26 Find similarities and differences between texts in the treatment, amount and depth of coverage, or organization of ideas on a particular subject.
LITERATURE
CCG: Listen to and Read Literary Text:
Listen to text and read text to make connections and respond to a wide variety of literature of varying complexity.
CCG: Literary Text: Demonstrate General Understanding:
Demonstrate general understanding of grade-level literary text.
EL.08.LI.03 Identify and/or summarize sequence of events, main ideas, and supporting details in literary selections.
CCG: Literary Text: Develop an Interpretation:
Develop an interpretation of grade-level literary text.
EL.08.LI.04 Predict probable future outcomes supported by the text.
EL.08.LI.05 Identify the actions and motives (e.g., loyalty, selfishness, conscientiousness) of characters in a work of fiction, including contrasting motives that advance the plot or promote the theme, and discuss their importance to the plot or theme.
EL.08.LI.06 Identify and analyze the development of themes in literary works based on evidence in the text.
EL.08.LI.07 Infer the main idea when it is not explicitly stated, and support with evidence from the text.
EL.08.LI.08 Infer unstated reasons for actions based on evidence in the text.
CCG: Literary Text: Examine Content and Structure:
Examine content and structure of grade-level literary text.
EL.08.LI.09 Identify significant literary devices, such as simile, metaphor, personification, symbolism, dialect, and irony which define a writer's style, and use those elements to analyze and evaluate the work.
EL.08.LI.10 Evaluate how well literary elements contribute to the overall effectiveness of a selection.
EL.08.LI.11 Analyze and contrast the use of point of view, such as first-person, third-person, limited and omniscient, and subjective and objective, in literary text, and explain how it affects text.
EL.08.LI.12 Analyze the importance of the setting (place, time, customs) to the mood, tone, and meaning of the text.
EL.08.LI.13 Analyze how dialogue is used to develop characters and mood in a selection.
EL.08.LI.14 Evaluate the structural elements of the plot, such as subplots, parallel episodes, and climax, including the way in which conflicts are (or are not) addressed and resolved.
EL.08.LI.15 Identify and analyze recurring themes (e.g., good versus evil) across traditional and contemporary works
WRITING
CCG: Planning, Evaluation, and Revision:
Pre-write, draft, revise, edit, and publish across the subject areas.
CCG: Writing:
Communicate supported ideas across the subject areas, including relevant examples, facts, anecdotes, and details appropriate to audience and purpose that engage reader interest; organize information in clear sequence, making connections and transitions among ideas, sentences, and paragraphs; and use precise words and fluent sentence structures that support meaning.
EL.08.WR.10 Create compositions that engage the reader, have a clear message, a coherent thesis, and end with a clear and well-supported conclusion.
EL.08.WR.11 Support theses or conclusions with quotations, opinions from experts, paraphrases, analogies, and/or similar devices.
EL.08.WR.12 Establish coherence within and among paragraphs through effective transitions and parallel structures.
EL.08.WR.13 Use descriptive language that clarifies and enhances ideas by establishing tone and mood through figurative language, sensory images, and comparisons.
EL.08.WR.14 To present a lively and effective personal style, use varied sentence types (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex) and sentence openings.
EL.08.WR.15 To enhance clarity and to support meaning, use parallelism in sentence construction—to present items in a series and items juxtaposed for emphasis.
EL.08.WR.16 To indicate clearly the relationship between ideas, use subordination, coordination, appositives, and other devices.
CCG: Conventions: Spelling:
Demonstrate knowledge of spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and penmanship across the subject areas.
EL.08.WR.18 Use consistent verb tenses.
CCG: Conventions: Grammar:
Demonstrate knowledge of spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and penmanship across the subject areas.
EL.08.WR.18 Use consistent verb tenses.
EL.08.WR.19 Correctly use frequently misused words (e.g., among, between; fewer, less; bring, take; and good, well).
EL.08.WR.20 Demonstrate appropriate English usage.
CCG: Conventions: Punctuation:
Demonstrate knowledge of spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and penmanship across the subject areas.
EL.08.WR.21 Use conventions of punctuation correctly, including commas, hyphens, dashes, and semi-colons.
CCG: Conventions: Capitalization:
Demonstrate knowledge of spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and penmanship across the subject areas.
EL.08.WR.22 Use correct capitalization.
CCG: Writing Modes:
Write narrative, expository, and persuasive texts, using a variety of written forms—including journals, essays, short stories, poems, research reports, research papers, business and technical writing—to express ideas appropriate to audience and purpose across the subject areas.
Personal Narrative
Fictional Narrative
Expository
Persuasive
CCG: Writing Applications: Expository Writing: Response to Literary Text (4-CIM):
Write narrative, expository, and persuasive texts, using a variety of written forms—including journals, essays, short stories, poems, research reports, research papers, business and technical writing—to express ideas appropriate to audience and purpose across the subject areas.
EL.08.WR.25 Write responses to literature:
· Demonstrate careful reading and insight into interpretations.
· Connect the student's own responses to the writer's techniques and to specific textual references.
· Draw supported inferences about the effects of a literary work on its audience.
· Support interpretations through references to the text, other works, other authors, or to personal knowledge.
CCG: Writing Applications: Persuasive Writing (4-CIM):
Write narrative, expository, and persuasive texts, using a variety of written forms—including journals, essays, short stories, poems, research reports, research papers, business and technical writing—to express ideas appropriate to audience and purpose across the subject areas.
EL.08.WR.27 Write persuasive compositions:
· Include a well-defined thesis that makes a clear and knowledgeable judgment or appeal.
· Present detailed evidence, examples, and reasoning to support arguments, differentiating between facts and opinions.
· Provide details, reasons, and examples, arranging them effectively by anticipating and answering reader concerns and counter-arguments.
For the complete English/Language Arts standards for all grades, visit OPEN Clearinghouse (PDF file).
You can also search the Oregon standards by grade and subject matter at Searchable Standards on the Oregon Department of Education site.
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