IXL skill plan | 8th grade plan for the North Dakota A-PLUS Summative

Skill plan for the North Dakota A-PLUS Summative - 8th grade

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Reading
Comprehension
Literary Text		Short stories 1. Analyze short stories Inference • Coming soon: Draw inferences from literary texts Theme 2. Match the quotations with their themes 3. Determine the themes of short stories Vocabulary 4. Interpret figures of speech 5. Positive and negative connotation 6. Use context to identify the meaning of a word
Literary Text
Short stories 1. Analyze short stories Inference • Coming soon: Draw inferences from literary texts Theme 2. Match the quotations with their themes 3. Determine the themes of short stories Vocabulary 4. Interpret figures of speech 5. Positive and negative connotation 6. Use context to identify the meaning of a word

Informational Text		Informational passages 1. Read and understand informational passages • Coming soon: Read about history Inference • Coming soon: Draw inferences from informational texts Main idea 2. Determine the main idea of a passage Facts and opinions 3. Distinguish facts from opinions Vocabulary 4. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 5. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures
Informational Text
Informational passages 1. Read and understand informational passages • Coming soon: Read about history Inference • Coming soon: Draw inferences from informational texts Main idea 2. Determine the main idea of a passage Facts and opinions 3. Distinguish facts from opinions Vocabulary 4. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 5. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures
Text Analysis
Literary Text		Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from The Outsiders: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from The Outsiders: Part 2 Word choice and meaning 3. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone Compare texts 4. Compare two texts with different genres
Literary Text
Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from The Outsiders: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from The Outsiders: Part 2 Word choice and meaning 3. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone Compare texts 4. Compare two texts with different genres

Informational Text		Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from Travels with Charley: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from Travels with Charley: Part 2 Text structure 3. Identify text structures Development of ideas 4. Trace an argument Purpose and point of view 5. Identify the author's purpose 6. Determine the author's point of view Compare texts 7. Compare information from two texts Bias 8. Evaluate newspaper headlines for bias
Informational Text
Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from Travels with Charley: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from Travels with Charley: Part 2 Text structure 3. Identify text structures Development of ideas 4. Trace an argument Purpose and point of view 5. Identify the author's purpose 6. Determine the author's point of view Compare texts 7. Compare information from two texts Bias 8. Evaluate newspaper headlines for bias

Writing and Language
Text Types and Structure
Informative		Purpose and organization 1. Remove the sentence that does not belong 2. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions • Coming soon: Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea Evidence and elaboration 3. Identify supporting details in informational texts 4. Use academic vocabulary in context: informational
Informative
Purpose and organization 1. Remove the sentence that does not belong 2. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions • Coming soon: Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea Evidence and elaboration 3. Identify supporting details in informational texts 4. Use academic vocabulary in context: informational

Argumentative		Purpose and organization 1. Identify thesis statements 2. Organize information by topic 3. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims Evidence and elaboration 4. Choose evidence to support a claim 5. Identify supporting details in literary texts 6. Identify counterclaims
Argumentative
Purpose and organization 1. Identify thesis statements 2. Organize information by topic 3. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims Evidence and elaboration 4. Choose evidence to support a claim 5. Identify supporting details in literary texts 6. Identify counterclaims

Narrative		Purpose and organization 1. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs Evidence and elaboration 2. Identify sensory details 3. Formatting quotations and dialogue
Narrative
Purpose and organization 1. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs Evidence and elaboration 2. Identify sensory details 3. Formatting quotations and dialogue
Writing Process and Craft
Writing process		Plan 1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest Revise 2. Remove redundant words or phrases 3. Suggest appropriate revisions Edit 4. Correct errors in everyday use 5. Correct capitalization errors
Writing process
Plan 1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest Revise 2. Remove redundant words or phrases 3. Suggest appropriate revisions Edit 4. Correct errors in everyday use 5. Correct capitalization errors

Craft		1. Which sentence is more formal? 2. Use personification 3. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb
Craft
1. Which sentence is more formal? 2. Use personification 3. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb

Inquiry and research		1. Identify relevant sources 2. Identify plagiarism
Inquiry and research
1. Identify relevant sources 2. Identify plagiarism
Language Usage
Conventions		Sentences 1. Create varied sentences based on models 2. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on? Grammar 3. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns 4. Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent 5. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that 6. Correct errors with subject-verb agreement 7. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense 8. Choose between adjectives and adverbs 9. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives 10. Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs 11. Identify prepositional phrases Punctuation 12. Commas: review
Conventions
Sentences 1. Create varied sentences based on models 2. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on? Grammar 3. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns 4. Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent 5. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that 6. Correct errors with subject-verb agreement 7. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense 8. Choose between adjectives and adverbs 9. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives 10. Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs 11. Identify prepositional phrases Punctuation 12. Commas: review

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