Common Core State Standards

Recognize variations from standard English in their own and others' writing and speaking, and identify and use strategies to improve expression in conventional language.*

Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*

Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*

Use intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).

(See note; not applicable as a separate requirement)

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they see and hear when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.

Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.

Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone