8th grade language arts helps the student with: Vocabulary skills including identifying and determining the meaning of synonyms, antonyms, idioms, homophones and Latin and Greek roots. Comprehension skills including summarizing, paraphrasing, or synthesizing information from two or more literary or expository texts. Identifying vocabulary words in a text and giving its meaning. Understanding main ideas, comparing and contrasting ideas and information, cause and effect, symbolism, making inferences, mood, tone, and point of view, in a story. Applying their writing skills on activities such as composing their own cover letters, poems, biography, position papers, and more.
Reading: Mastering complex reading passages Comprehending and using figurative language Offering an objective summary of more complicated texts Interpret text from different formats. Using critical thinking skills to separate truth from error
Writing: Using the writing process to take compositions from prewriting and planning through revision. Using technology-aided tools such as graphic organizers to help them with prewriting and planning. Developing a topic with simple facts, details, examples and explanations. Relating a clear, coherent incident, event or situation by using well-chosen details through various writing activities. Showing a command of English grammar during all writing activities.
Grammar: Maintaining subject-verb agreement Using quotation marks correctly in dialogue Using punctuation (comma, ellipsis, dash) to indicate a pause or break. Forming and using verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood. Correctly use capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
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