Alabama 8th Grade ELA Standards in Language Literacy

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Language Literacy

• Reading
  • 16 Examine the use of conventions of standard English grammar and usage in writing.
    • 16.a Identify gerunds, participles, infinitives, and clauses.
    • 16.b Analyze the effects of active and passive voice and shifts in verb tense.
    • 16.c Explain how using simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex statements and questions signals differing relationships among ideas in a text.
  • 17 Examine the use of conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in a variety of texts.
    • 17.a Correct improper usage of commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, semicolons, hyphens, and dashes through peer editing.
• Listening
  • 18 Analyze a speaker’s formality of language in order to comprehend, interpret, and respond appropriately.
  • 19 Evaluate a speaker’s rhetorical and organizational choices in order to determine point of view, purpose, and effectiveness.
• Writing
  • 20 Produce writing that shows a command of standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics.
    • 20.a Construct verbals (gerunds, participles, and infinitives) in pieces of writing, including isolated sentences, paragraphs, and essays.
    • 20.b Compose writing using verbs in active and passive voice to establish mood.
    • 20.c Revise their own writing for correct mechanics with a focus on commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semicolons.
    • 20.d Construct simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
    • 20.e Form and use verbs in context in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive moods.
    • 20.f Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.
• Speaking
  • 21 Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy.