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8th grade 19 TAC §110.24 81 student expectations 5 activities

8th grade Reading & Writing

Eighth-grade reading and writing expects analysis: how themes develop through characters and events, non-linear plots, extended metaphor and irony, and how an argument handles its counterargument. Students defend or challenge an author's claim with evidence, write narratives and multi-paragraph essays, and run research with credible sources, correct citations, and no plagiarism.

Practice activities

🔎Reading Critically: Claims, Craft, and ThemeVocabulary from context and roots, comprehension and response including defending or challenging a claim, theme through character and events, non-linear plots, setting and values, genres, poetic form, drama, informational and argumentative structure, and author's craft including irony, extended metaphor, and fallacies.
🚀Typing Rocket: Academic WordsType academic words and words built on Greek and Latin roots (ast, path, mand/mend, duc) accurately.
🧺Word Catch: Roots and Word ChoiceCatch parts of speech, Greek and Latin roots, and words by connotation.
📓Cornell NotesPractice the five Rs of Cornell Notes, write cues that make you think, take notes while listening, and write strong summaries.
🖋️Writing and Research WorkshopPlan, draft, revise, edit, and publish; narratives, informational and argumentative essays, and correspondence; conventions including active and passive voice, nonrestrictive commas, colons, and parentheses; and inquiry from question to ethical citation.

The learning path

One stop per unit. Filled stops have practice activities today.

1Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. Th2Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary.3Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--fluency. Th4Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustai5Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacog6Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an in7Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The studen8Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognize9Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses c10Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses11Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre ch12Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student engages in b

Units and standards preview

The knowledge-and-skills strands below are the state's, reproduced from English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 8, Adopted 2017. Open a unit to read each student expectation and jump to the activities that practice it.

1Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.0/4 practiced
  1. (A) listen actively to interpret a message by summarizing, asking questions, and making comments;
    19 TAC 110.24(b)(1)(A)
  2. (B) follow and give complex oral instructions to perform specific tasks, answer questions, or solve problems;
    19 TAC 110.24(b)(1)(B)
  3. (C) advocate a position using anecdotes, analogies, and/or illustrations employing eye contact, speaking rate, volume, enunciation, a variety of natural gestures, and conventions of language to communicate ideas effectively; and
    19 TAC 110.24(b)(1)(C)
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2Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively.3/3 practiced
  1. (A) use print or digital resources to determine the meaning, syllabication, pronunciation, word origin, and part of speech;
    19 TAC 110.24(b)(2)(A)
    🔎 Reading Critically: Claims, Craft, and Theme
  2. (B) use context within or beyond a paragraph to clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or ambiguous words; and
    19 TAC 110.24(b)(2)(B)
    🔎 Reading Critically: Claims, Craft, and Theme
  3. (C) determine the meaning and usage of grade-level academic English words derived from Greek and Latin roots such as ast, qui, path, mand/mend, and duc.
    19 TAC 110.24(b)(2)(C)
    🔎 Reading Critically: Claims, Craft, and Theme🚀 Typing Rocket: Academic Words🧺 Word Catch: Roots and Word Choice

10 more units, 81 expectations, 5 activities

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How to help at home

Read the same article or chapter and compare what each of you thinks the main idea is.
Ask your child to find the sentence that proves a claim. Evidence is the whole game now.
When they write, have them read it aloud; ears catch what eyes miss.

Source: Texas Education Agency, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, 19 TAC §110.24. Curriculum text on this site is reproduced from the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills as published by the Texas Education Agency and codified in Title 19 of the Texas Administrative Code. Baccare is an independent product of Brigade Management, Inc. and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the Texas Education Agency, the State Board of Education, or the Texas Secretary of State. Sources and attribution.

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Course details

  • Grade8th grade
  • SubjectReading & Writing
  • Standard19 TAC §110.24
  • Units12
  • Expectations81
  • Activities5
  • PriceFree to play
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