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Grade: Grade 8
Standards: Students
1. Create oral and written questions to seek explanations and expanded information
2. Give extended answers and explanations to oral and written questions on a variety of topics
3. Initiate conversations on a variety of topics
4. Describe people and objects in oral and written form
5. Describe in oral and written form a sequence of events in present, past, and future time
6. Use the target language for a variety of extended spoken activities
7. Continue to improve comprehension of extended discourse, including discourse produced by native speakers
8. Participate in extended oral communication, i.e., discussions, interviews, presentation, supporting opinions.
9. Read linguistically and developmentally appropriate passages including articles, stories, and other texts using strategies such as pre-reading, skimming, scanning, intensive reading, and post-reading activities
10. Write a text of paragraph length, using the steps of process writing (brainstorm, outline, draft, edit, revise)
11. Create short works of poetry and prose
12. Self/Peer edit
13. Use reference materials such as dictionaries, Internet, etc.
14. Read to summarize
15. Read to locate needed information
16. Begin to read selected authentic texts for pleasure