Grade 8: Part of the Tested Curriculum as Identified by TEA
Source: Margret Kilgo
Obj.
Strand
SE
8.2A
Reading/Vocabulary
Development
8.2B
1
Reading/Comprehension of
Informational
Text/Expository Text
Metacognitive Skills
Figure 19
8.10A
Fig. 19
(E)
Main Concept
(A) determine the meaning of grade-level academic English
words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots
and affixes
(B) use context (within a sentence and in larger sections of
text) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or
ambiguous words or words with novel meanings
(A) summarize the main ideas, supporting details, and
relationships among ideas in text succinctly in ways that
maintain meaning and logical order
Verb
Noun
(E) summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize texts in ways that
maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across
texts
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Obj.
Strand
SE
Reading/Comprehension of
Literary Text/Theme /Genre
8.3C
8.6
2
Reading/Comprehension of
Literary Text/Fiction
8.6A
8.6B
Reading/Comprehension of
Literary Text/Sensory
Language
8.8A
Main Concept
(C) explain how the values and beliefs of particular characters
are affected by the historical and cultural setting of the literary
work
Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions
about the structure and elements of fiction and provide
evidence from text to support their understanding.
(A) analyze linear plot developments (e.g., conflict, rising
action, falling action, resolution, subplots) to determine
whether and how conflicts are resolved
(B) analyze how the central characters' qualities influence the
theme of a fictional work and resolution of the central conflict
(A) explain the effect of similes and extended metaphors in
literary text
Cognitive
Content
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Obj.
3
Strand
Reading/Comprehension of
Informational
Text/Expository Text
Metacognitive Skills
Figure 19
SE
8.10A
8.10 B
Main Concept
(A) summarize the main ideas, supporting details, and
relationships among ideas in text succinctly in ways that
maintain meaning and logical order
(B) distinguish factual claims from commonplace assertions
and opinions and evaluate inferences from their logic in text
Cognitive
Content
(C) make subtle inferences and draw complex conclusions
about the ideas in text and their organizational patterns
(D) synthesize and make logical connections between ideas
within a text and across two or three texts representing
8.10D
similar or different genres and support those findings with
textual evidence
Fig. 19 (D) make complex inferences about text and use textual
(D)
evidence to support understanding
(E) summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize texts in ways that
Fig. 19
maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across
(E)
texts
Fig. 19 (F) make intertextual links among and across texts, including
(F)
other media (e.g., film, play), and provide textual evidence
8.10C
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Obj.
Strand
SE
Reading/Comprehension of
Literary Text/Fiction
8.6
Reading/Comprehension of
Literary Text/Sensory
Language
8.8
8.8A
8.10B
4
Reading/Comprehension of
Informational
Text/Expository Text
8.10C
8.10D
Fig. 19
(D)
Metacognitve Skills
Figure 19
Fig. 19
(E)
Fig. 19
(F)
Main Concept
Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions
about the structure and elements of fiction and provide
evidence from text to support their understanding.
Cognitive
Content
Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions
about how an author's sensory language creates imagery in
literary text and provide evidence from text to support their
understanding.
(A) explain the effect of similes and extended metaphors in
literary text
distinguish factual claims from commonplace assertions and
opinions and evaluate inferences from their logic in text
(C) make subtle inferences and draw complex conclusions
about the ideas in text and their organizational patterns
(D) synthesize and make logical connections between ideas
within a text and across two or three texts representing similar
or different genres, and support those findings with textual
evidence
(D) make complex inferences about text and use textual
evidence to support understanding
(E) summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize texts in ways that
maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across
texts
(F) make intertextual links among and across texts, including
other media (e.g., film, play), and provide textual evidence
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