Looking for free content that’s aligned to your standards? You’ve come to the right place!
Get Free 8th Grade ELA Content
Khan Academy is a nonprofit with thousands of free videos, articles, and practice questions for just about every standard.
No ads, no subscriptions – just 100% free, forever.
1.2 Reading Informational Text
- Key Ideas and Details Main Idea
- CC.1.2.8.A 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.
- Key Ideas and Details Text Analysis
- CC.1.2.8.B Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences, conclusions, and/or generalizations drawn from the text.
- CC.1.2.8.C Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events.
- Craft and Structure Point of View
- CC.1.2.8.D 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.
- Craft and Structure Text Structure
- CC.1.2.8.E Analyze the structure of the text through evaluation of the author’s use of specific sentences and paragraphs to develop and refine a concept.
- Craft and Structure Vocabulary
- CC.1.2.8.F Analyze the influence of the words and phrases in a text including figurative and connotative, and technical meanings; and how they shape meaning and tone.
- Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Diverse Media
- CC.1.2.8.G Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g. print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.
- Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Evaluating Arguments
- CC.1.2.8.H Evaluate authors’ arguments, reasoning, and specific claims for the soundness of the arguments and the relevance of the evidence.
- Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Analysis Across Texts
- CC.1.2.8.I Analyze two or more texts that provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.
- Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
- CC.1.2.8.J 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.
- CC.1.2.8.K Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies and tools.
- Range of Reading
- CC.1.2.8.L Read and comprehend literary nonfiction and informational text on grade level, reading independently and proficiently.