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RML Research and Media Literacy

Research and Inquiry
- ELA.8.RML.1 Students engage in research and inquiry by asking questions and seeking answers from information sources.
  - ELA.8.RML.1.a Ask different types of questions, refining and asking new questions as understanding of the topic evolves.
  - ELA.8.RML.1.b Generate ideas for how to initiate their search based on prior knowledge.
  - ELA.8.RML.1.c Select and access a variety of relevant information sources, considering the advantages and drawbacks of content generated by technology, among other options.
    - Identify relevant sources (8-V.1)
  - ELA.8.RML.1.d Select and use digital search tools effectively based on analysis of the technologies that deliver results.
  - ELA.8.RML.1.e Gather and organize relevant information using a variety of strategies.
  - ELA.8.RML.1.f Synthesize new learning to use and/or share.
Media Literacy
- ELA.8.RML.2 Students explain how people's reactions to media messages are affected.
  - ELA.8.RML.2.a Explain how perspectives affect reactions to media messages.
  - ELA.8.RML.2.b Explain how emotional responses to media messages affect reactions.
  - ELA.8.RML.2.c Identify how different criteria for determining what is true affect reactions to and interpretations of media messages.
- ELA.8.RML.3 Students explain the purposes of media messages and the techniques used to create them.
  - ELA.8.RML.3.a Determine whether the main purpose of a media message is to inform, persuade, provoke, sell, or entertain.
    - Identify the author's purpose (8-C.1)
  - ELA.8.RML.3.b Describe the techniques, including appeals and integration of multimedia, used to achieve the media message's purpose.
- ELA.8.RML.4 Students evaluate components of media messages, as well as content generated by technology, when looking for information that's accurate, logical, and/or fair.
  - ELA.8.RML.4.a Determine whether statements can be verified as true or false or need to be evaluated another way.
    - Distinguish facts from opinions (8-P.1)
    - Choose evidence to support a claim (8-P.3)
  - ELA.8.RML.4.b Check the accuracy of information that is either true or false by comparing what multiple reliable sources say about it.
  - ELA.8.RML.4.c Determine whether the visual or audio components of a media message represent its subject accurately and/or fairly, considering how digital media can be manipulated.
  - ELA.8.RML.4.d Evaluate the logic of claims and the strength of evidence used to support them.
    - Trace an argument (8-J.1)
    - Classify logical fallacies (8-P.6)
- ELA.8.RML.5 Students evaluate the credibility of those responsible for media messages, as well as content-generating technology.
  - ELA.8.RML.5.a Identify those responsible for the content of media messages.
  - ELA.8.RML.5.b Determine whether those responsible for media messages have expertise about the topic.
  - ELA.8.RML.5.c Evaluate the reputations for accuracy, logic, and fairness of those responsible for media messages.
  - ELA.8.RML.5.d Determine whether those responsible for media messages exhibit a perspective relevant to the topic and, if so, to what extent that perspective has been affected by bias.
    - Evaluate newspaper headlines for bias (8-V.2)

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R Reading

Text/Visual Features

ELA.8.R.1 Students know and use text/visual features.

ELA.8.R.1.a Use text/visual features to identify sections of a longer text that are likely to contain needed information.

ELA.8.R.1.b Describe how text/visual features represent, organize, and/or add meaning to the written text.

ELA.8.R.1.c Describe the text/visual features of a given text in range of genres.

Comprehending and Interpreting Texts

ELA.8.R.4 Students comprehend and interpret texts using a variety of strategies.

ELA.8.R.4.a Preview the text while reflecting on their purposes for reading.

ELA.8.R.4.b Visualize, imagine, and/or otherwise engage the senses to make meaning of the text.

ELA.8.R.4.c Make inferences and predictions, checking them against textual evidence.

ELA.8.R.4.d Maintain motivation and reconnect to the flow of reading using a variety of strategies.

ELA.8.R.4.e Explain how choices about text/visual features advance the author's purpose and fit within the genre, medium, or platform.

ELA.8.R.4.f Explain literary techniques and their effects.

ELA.8.R.4.g Describe what they understand from the topic or story, including how information, ideas, or elements of a story interact and/or change.

ELA.8.R.4.h Explain how the author's use of language, including analogies, allusions, and repetition of words or sounds, shapes meaning and affects reader understanding.

ELA.8.R.4.i Analyze how authors use text structure to guide readers' understanding and shape meaning.

Analyzing, Evaluating, and Using Texts

ELA.8.R.5 Students analyze texts, introducing and attributing textual evidence when relevant.

ELA.8.R.5.a Explain how authors' choices influence readers' choices, beliefs, and/or actions.

ELA.8.R.5.b Analyze the communicative situation in which an author writes a text, including their purposes, their perspectives, the genre and platform they choose, and their intended audience.

ELA.8.R.5.c Explain the main idea, theme, or key information in a text, how it deepens, expands, or changes their previous understanding, and how it connects to their own experiences.

ELA.8.R.5.d Compare and contrast similar content presented in different genres, mediums, and platforms.

ELA.8.R.6 Students evaluate texts.

ELA.8.R.6.a Explain how effectively an element of a text invites the reader to visualize and/or empathize, using relevant criteria.

ELA.8.R.6.b Explain how effectively an element of a text engages the reader or inspires ideas or action, using relevant criteria.

W Writing

Writing Purposes and Products

ELA.8.W.1 Students compose multimodal texts in a variety of genres across content areas for a variety of purposes.

ELA.8.W.1.a Compose in order to describe situations, experiences, ideas, and imaginings.

ELA.8.W.1.b Compose in order to record observations and/or explain their observations and analysis of texts, ideas, and the world.

ELA.8.W.1.c Compose in order to make a claim about an issue.

ELA.8.W.1.d Compose in order to persuade others.

ELA.8.W.1.e Compose in order to tell narratives of stories and events.

Plan and Draft

ELA.8.W.2 Students manage and complete writing projects, connecting to interests, experiences, needs, or perspectives.

ELA.8.W.2.a Analyze the prompt and communicative situation to determine the purpose of the project and how to meet it.

ELA.8.W.2.b Analyze the intended audience's background knowledge, expectations, perspectives, beliefs, and/or values as they relate to the topic.

ELA.8.W.2.c Create a plan and manage a timeline for sustained writing projects, prioritizing tasks and adjusting strategies to meet goals.

ELA.8.W.2.d Use feedback to make purposeful shifts in focus and timeline when needed.

ELA.8.W.3 Students draft content within the genre and purpose, using technology appropriately.

ELA.8.W.3.a Generate ideas for topics, genres, and material.

ELA.8.W.3.b Select and organize ideas and material, including findings from research and/or multimedia artifacts, identifying when and how it's fair to use the creative work of others.

ELA.8.W.3.c Follow, adapt, or combine genre-specific text elements to achieve specific purposes and effects.

ELA.8.W.3.d Develop descriptions with concrete and/or abstract details to help the audience imagine and empathize with the content and to activate the senses.

ELA.8.W.3.e Develop analysis of experience, events, information, ideas, and/or texts.

ELA.8.W.3.f Strengthen analysis by selecting relevant evidence from texts and explaining how specific details, examples, and quotations support analysis.

ELA.8.W.3.g Support claims with relevant and credible evidence connected by sound and valid reasoning and challenge counterclaims.

ELA.8.W.3.h Use persuasive techniques, including arguments, evaluations, and appeals to emotion, reason, and authority.

ELA.8.W.3.i Use a variety of narrative techniques and devices consistent with the genre to develop characters, advance plot, establish mood, and engage the reader.

ELA.8.W.3.j Attribute sources in ways consistent with the genre, using technology appropriately.

ELA.8.W.4 Students organize content by using and/or adapting the genre's structure based on purpose.

ELA.8.W.4.a Craft engaging introductions by using strategies that orient the reader to the topic, purpose, situation, or context.

ELA.8.W.4.b Organize content using genre-specific strategies.

ELA.8.W.4.c Compose conclusions that provide meaningful closure by reinforcing the purpose and creating lasting impact.

Revise and Edit

ELA.8.W.5 Students evaluate, revise, and edit their compositions using a variety of strategies, including appropriate use of technology.

ELA.8.W.5.a Re-read to determine whether the draft is ready for next steps, including by identifying potential differences between intended meaning and audience interpretation.

ELA.8.W.5.b Gather, evaluate, and consider using feedback about their compositions.

ELA.8.W.5.c Use what they learned from re-reading and feedback to strengthen their compositions.

ELA.8.W.5.d Edit for conventions and consistency of text/visual features, including attributions. [Demonstrate command of Language standards in grades 1–8.]

Share and Publish

ELA.8.W.6 Students share and publish compositions in person and/or on digital or non-digital platforms.

ELA.8.W.6.a Determine where to publish after considering potential impacts on intended and unintended audiences and the permanence of digital platforms.

L Language

Knowledge of Language

ELA.8.L.1 Students identify and discuss when and why language is used differently according to the context.

ELA.8.L.1.a Compare and contrast the uses of English across communities, cultures, and contexts.

ELA.8.L.1.b Compare and contrast the uses of English in various genres.

Structure and Functions of English

ELA.8.L.2 Students vary sentence patterns for meaning, clarity, and style in conversations and writing about experiences, events, and ideas.

ELA.8.L.2.a Develop well-formed sentences (syntax) to clarify relationships among ideas, including use of parallel structure.

ELA.8.L.2.b Use phrases, clauses, and transitions with punctuation to add precision, variety, and complexity to sentence structures.

ELA.8.L.2.c Form and use verb moods to communicate emphasis, certainty, conditions, or perspective.

ELA.8.L.2.d Form and use active and passive voice to communicate emphasis and meaning.

ELA.8.L.3 Students determine the meaning of and use new and multiple-meaning words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, viewing, and research.

ELA.8.L.3.a Determine the meaning of words and phrases by using context, roots, affixes, and reference materials strategically.