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LA.8.V Vocabulary
- Acquisition and Use: Build and use a range of conversational, academic, and discipline-specific grade-level vocabulary and apply to reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
- LA.8.V.1 Integrate grade-level academic vocabulary appropriately for a variety of tasks and purposes.
- LA.8.V.1.a Use context clues (e.g. the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) to determine the meanings of words and phrases.
- LA.8.V.1.b Use commonly occurring Greek and Latin affixes and roots to determine the meanings of words (e.g., recede, precede).
- LA.8.V.1.c Consult general and specialized reference materials to determine or clarify the precise meanings, pronunciations, or parts of speech of words.
- LA.8.V.1 Integrate grade-level academic vocabulary appropriately for a variety of tasks and purposes.
- Context and Connotation: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
- LA.8.V.2 Interpret an author’s use of figurative, connotative, and technical language in grade-level literary and informational text.
- LA.8.V.2.a Interpret figures of speech (e.g., verbal irony, puns) in context.
- LA.8.V.2.b Determine the relationship between particular words to better understand each of the words.
- LA.8.V.2.c Distinguish between the connotations of words with similar denotations (e.g., willful, resolute).
- LA.8.V.2 Interpret an author’s use of figurative, connotative, and technical language in grade-level literary and informational text.