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Correspondence & Response to Text Prompts

8th Grade

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.17

Students write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.17.B

write a letter that reflects an opinion, registers a complaint, or requests information in a business or friendly context;

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.17.C

write responses to literary or expository texts that demonstrate the writing skills for multi-paragraph essays and provide sustained evidence from the text using quotations when appropriate;

Alabama Course of Study Standards: 8

Produce clear, coherent narrative, argument, and informative/explanatory writing in which the development, organization, style, and tone are relevant to task, purpose, and audience, using an appropriate command of language.
  1. Write narratives that establish a clear purpose, use narrative techniques, and sequence events coherently.
    Examples: narratives - memoir, short story, personal narrative; techniques - dialogue, pacing, description, reflection; sequencing - chronological, reverse chronological, flashback
  2. Write informative or explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas or processes effectively, by developing the topic with relevant information or data from credible sources and using appropriate transitions and precise vocabulary.
  3. Write an argument to defend a position by introducing and supporting a claim, distinguishing the claim from opposing claims, presenting counterclaims and reasons, and citing accurate, relevant textual evidence from credible sources.

Arkansas Academic Standards: W.8.10

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

Arizona - K-12 Academic Standards: 8.W.10

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.W.8.10

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE8W10

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.

Tennessee Academic Standards: 8.W.RW.10

Write routinely over extended time frames and shorter time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
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