Cluster: Production and Distribution of Writing.

Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)

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Cluster: Production and Distribution of Writing.

Standard: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 8 on page 53.)

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Cluster: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.

Standard: 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.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.

Standard: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Cluster: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.

Standard: 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.

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Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.

Standard: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).

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Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.

Standard: 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.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Cluster: Range of Writing.

Standard: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Cluster: Craft and Structure.

Standard: 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.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.

Standard: 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.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.

Standard: 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.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Cluster: Conventions of Standard English.

Standard: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Cluster: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.

Standard: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Cluster: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.

Standard: 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.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Cluster: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.

Standard: 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.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Learning Domain: Reading Literature

Standard: Key Ideas and Details.

Indicator: 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.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Learning Domain: Reading Literature

Standard: Key Ideas and Details.

Indicator: 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.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Learning Domain: Reading Literature

Standard: Key Ideas and Details.

Indicator: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Learning Domain: Writing

Standard: Production and Distribution of Writing.

Indicator: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1���3 above.)

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Learning Domain: Writing

Standard: Production and Distribution of Writing.

Indicator: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1���3 up to and including grade 8 on page 53.)

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Learning Domain: Writing

Standard: Range of Writing.

Indicator: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Learning Domain: Language

Standard: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.

Indicator: 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.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Learning Domain: Language

Standard: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.

Indicator: 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.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Learning Domain: Language

Standard: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.

Indicator: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text

Standard: Craft and Structure.

Indicator: 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.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text

Standard: Key Ideas and Details.

Indicator: 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.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text

Standard: Key Ideas and Details.

Indicator: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text

Standard: Key Ideas and Details.

Indicator: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text

Standard: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.

Indicator: 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.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Learning Domain: Reading Literature

Standard: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.

Indicator: 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.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)

Learning Domain: Language

Standard: Conventions of Standard English.

Indicator: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)