ELA.8.C.1.3 ELA.8.C.1.4 ELA.8.V.1.1 8.3* 8.4* 8.5 8.5.A* 8.5.B* 8.5.C 8.5.D* 8.5.E 8.5.F 8.5.G 8.5.H 8.5.I* 8.6 8.6.A* 8.6.B 8.6.C 8.6.D 8.6.E* 8.6.F* 8.6.G* 8.6.H* 8.6.I* 8.6.J* 8.7 8.7.A 8.7.B 8.7.C 8.7.D 8.8 8.8.B 8.8.C 8.8.D 8.8.F* 8.9 8.9.A 8.9.B 8.9.C 8.9.D 8.9.E 8.9.F 8.9.G 8.10 8.10.B 8.10.E* 8.11 8.11.B 8.12 8.12.F* 8.12.H*

Responses to Text Prompts 8th Grade

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.3*
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--fluency. The student reads grade-level text with fluency and comprehension. The student is expected to adjust fluency when reading grade-level text based on the reading purpose.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.4*
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustained reading. The student reads grade-appropriate texts independently. The student is expected to self-select text and read independently for a sustained period of time.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5
Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.A*
establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected text;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.B*
generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.C
make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.D*
create mental images to deepen understanding;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.E
make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.F
make inferences and use evidence to support understanding;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.G
evaluate details read to determine key ideas;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.H
synthesize information to create new understanding;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.I*
monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6
Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.A*
describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.B
write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing sources within and across genres;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.C
use text evidence to support an appropriate response;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.D
paraphrase and summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.E*
interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.F*
respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.G*
discuss and write about the explicit or implicit meanings of text;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.H*
respond orally or in writing with appropriate register, vocabulary, tone, and voice;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.I*
reflect on and adjust responses as new evidence is presented;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.J*
defend or challenge the author's claims using relevant text evidence.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.7
Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.7.A
analyze how themes are developed through the interaction of characters and events;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.7.B
analyze how characters' motivations and behaviors influence events and resolution of the conflict;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.7.C
analyze non-linear plot development such as flashbacks, foreshadowing, subplots, and parallel plot structures and compare it to linear plot development; and
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.7.D
explain how the setting influences the values and beliefs of characters.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.8
Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.8.B
analyze the effect of graphical elements such as punctuation and line length in poems across a variety of poetic forms such as epic, lyric, and humorous poetry;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.8.C
analyze how playwrights develop dramatic action through the use of acts and scenes;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.8.D
analyze characteristics and structural elements of informational text, including: the controlling idea or thesis with supporting evidence; features such as footnotes, endnotes, and citations; and multiple organizational patterns within a text to develop the thesis;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.8.F*
analyze characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.9
Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.9.A
explain the author's purpose and message within a text;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.9.B
analyze how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.9.C
analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.9.D
describe how the author's use of figurative language such as extended metaphor achieves specific purposes;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.9.E
identify and analyze the use of literary devices, including multiple points of view and irony; NOTE: The use of irony is not eligible for assessment until the 2021-2022 school year.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.9.F
analyze how the author's use of language contributes to mood, voice, and tone;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.9.G
explain the purpose of rhetorical devices such as analogy and juxtaposition and of logical fallacies such as bandwagon appeals and circular reasoning.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.10
Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.10.B
develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by: organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions, coherence within and across paragraphs, and a conclusion; and developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts, details, and examples;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.10.E*
publish written work for appropriate audiences.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.11
Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.11.B
compose informational texts, including multi-paragraph essays that convey information about a topic, using a clear controlling idea or thesis statement and genre characteristics and craft;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.12
Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student engages in both short-term and sustained recursive inquiry processes for a variety of purposes.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.12.F*
synthesize information from a variety of sources;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.12.H*
examine sources for: reliability, credibility, and bias, including omission; and faulty reasoning such as bandwagon appeals, repetition, and loaded language;
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.8.C.1.3
Write to argue a position, supporting at least one claim and rebutting at least one counterclaim with logical reasoning, credible evidence from sources, elaboration, and using a logical organizational structure.
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.8.C.1.4
Write expository texts to explain and analyze information from multiple sources, using relevant supporting details, logical organization, and varied purposeful transitions.
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.8.V.1.1
Integrate academic vocabulary appropriate to grade level in speaking and writing.

Responses to Text Prompts

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.3*

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--fluency. The student reads grade-level text with fluency and comprehension. The student is expected to adjust fluency when reading grade-level text based on the reading purpose.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.4*

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustained reading. The student reads grade-appropriate texts independently. The student is expected to self-select text and read independently for a sustained period of time.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5

Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.A*

establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected text;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.B*

generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.C

make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.D*

create mental images to deepen understanding;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.E

make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.F

make inferences and use evidence to support understanding;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.G

evaluate details read to determine key ideas;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.H

synthesize information to create new understanding;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.5.I*

monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6

Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.A*

describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.B

write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing sources within and across genres;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.C

use text evidence to support an appropriate response;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.D

paraphrase and summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.E*

interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.F*

respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.G*

discuss and write about the explicit or implicit meanings of text;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.H*

respond orally or in writing with appropriate register, vocabulary, tone, and voice;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.I*

reflect on and adjust responses as new evidence is presented;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.J*

defend or challenge the author's claims using relevant text evidence.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.7

Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.7.A

analyze how themes are developed through the interaction of characters and events;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.7.B

analyze how characters' motivations and behaviors influence events and resolution of the conflict;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.7.C

analyze non-linear plot development such as flashbacks, foreshadowing, subplots, and parallel plot structures and compare it to linear plot development; and

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.7.D

explain how the setting influences the values and beliefs of characters.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.8

Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.8.B

analyze the effect of graphical elements such as punctuation and line length in poems across a variety of poetic forms such as epic, lyric, and humorous poetry;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.8.C

analyze how playwrights develop dramatic action through the use of acts and scenes;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.8.D

analyze characteristics and structural elements of informational text, including: the controlling idea or thesis with supporting evidence; features such as footnotes, endnotes, and citations; and multiple organizational patterns within a text to develop the thesis;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.8.F*

analyze characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.9

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.9.A

explain the author's purpose and message within a text;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.9.B

analyze how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.9.C

analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.9.D

describe how the author's use of figurative language such as extended metaphor achieves specific purposes;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.9.E

identify and analyze the use of literary devices, including multiple points of view and irony; NOTE: The use of irony is not eligible for assessment until the 2021-2022 school year.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.9.F

analyze how the author's use of language contributes to mood, voice, and tone;

analyze characteristics and structural elements of informational text, including:

the controlling idea or thesis with supporting evidence;
features such as footnotes, endnotes, and citations; and
multiple organizational patterns within a text to develop the thesis;

identify and analyze the use of literary devices, including multiple points of view and irony;

NOTE: The use of irony is not eligible for assessment until the 2021-2022 school year.

examine sources for:

reliability, credibility, and bias, including omission; and
faulty reasoning such as bandwagon appeals, repetition, and loaded language;