Colorado 8th Grade ELA Standards in Reading for All Purposes

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RW.8.2 Reading for All Purposes

• RW.8.2.1 Analyze and evaluate literary elements and an author’s choices to understand literary text.
  • RW.8.2.1.a Use Key Ideas and Details to:
    • RW.8.2.1.a.i Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
    • RW.8.2.1.a.ii 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.
    • RW.8.2.1.a.iii 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.
  • RW.8.2.1.b Use Craft and Structure to:
    • RW.8.2.1.b.i Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
    • RW.8.2.1.b.ii Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.
    • RW.8.2.1.b.iii Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (for example: created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.
  • RW.8.2.1.c Use Integration of Knowledge and Ideas to:
    • RW.8.2.1.c.i Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors.
    • RW.8.2.1.c.ii Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.
  • RW.8.2.1.d Use Range of Reading and Complexity of Text to:
    • RW.8.2.1.d.i By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
• RW.8.2.2 Analyze and evaluate an author’s choices to understand informational text.
  • RW.8.2.2.a Use Key Ideas and Details to:
    • RW.8.2.2.a.i Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
    • RW.8.2.2.a.ii Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
    • RW.8.2.2.a.iii Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (for example: through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
  • RW.8.2.2.b Use Craft and Structure to:
    • RW.8.2.2.b.i Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
    • RW.8.2.2.b.ii Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept.
    • RW.8.2.2.b.iii Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
  • RW.8.2.2.c Use Integration of Knowledge and Ideas to:
    • RW.8.2.2.c.i Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (for example: print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.
    • RW.8.2.2.c.ii Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
    • RW.8.2.2.c.iii Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.
  • RW.8.2.2.d Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
    • RW.8.2.2.d.i By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
• RW.8.2.3 Apply knowledge of word structure, grammar, and context to determine the meaning of new words and phrases in increasingly complex texts.
  • RW.8.2.3.a Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
    • RW.8.2.3.a.i Use context (for example: the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
    • RW.8.2.3.a.ii Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (for example: precede, recede, secede).
    • RW.8.2.3.a.iii Consult general and specialized reference materials (for example: dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
    • RW.8.2.3.a.iv Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (for example: by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
  • RW.8.2.3.b Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
    • RW.8.2.3.b.i Interpret figures of speech (for example: verbal irony, puns) in context.
    • RW.8.2.3.b.ii Use the relationship between particular words to better understand each of the words.
    • RW.8.2.3.b.iii Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (for example: bullheaded, willful, firm, persistent, resolute).
  • RW.8.2.3.c Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.