AlbertaGrade 8
AB Grade 8 English Curriculum
Lessons and practice for every Grade 8 English topic. Aligned to what Alberta schools teach. Build reading, writing, and communication skills at your own pace.
AB Grade 8 English Curriculum | StudyPugHelp
LO_ID | Learning Outcome-Skills & Procedures | StudyPug Topic |
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ELA.8.DE.1.1A | Express ideas and develop understanding: Revise understanding and expression of ideas by connecting new and prior knowledge and experiences |
ELA.8.DE.1.1B | Express ideas and develop understanding: Review reread discuss and reflect on oral print and other media texts to explore confirm or revise understanding |
ELA.8.DE.1.1C | Express ideas and develop understanding: Seek out and consider diverse ideas opinions and experiences to develop and extend own ideas opinions and experiences |
ELA.8.DE.1.1D | Experiment with language and forms: Discuss and respond to ways that forms of oral print and other media texts enhance or constrain the development and communication of ideas information and experiences |
ELA.8.DE.1.1E | Express preferences: Pursue personal interest in specific genres by particular writers artists storytellers and filmmakers |
ELA.8.DE.1.1F | Set goals: Create a language learning plan to meet attainable secondary post-secondary and career goals and include a record of achievements and goals |
ELA.8.CE.1.2A | Consider the ideas of others: Acknowledge the value of the ideas and opinions of others in exploring and extending personal interpretations and perspectives |
ELA.8.CE.1.2B | Combine ideas: Exchange ideas and opinions to clarify understanding and to broaden personal perspectives |
ELA.8.CE.1.2C | Extend understanding: Reconsider and revise initial understandings and responses in light of new ideas information and feedback from others |
ELA.8.USC.2.1A | Use prior knowledge: Use knowledge of authors forms and genres developed during previous reading to direct and extend reading experiences |
ELA.8.USC.2.1B | Use comprehension strategies: Monitor understanding skim scan or read slowly and carefully as appropriate to enhance comprehension |
ELA.8.USC.2.1C | Use textual cues: Use visual and textual cues and structural features to enhance comprehension of variety of everyday print and nonprint texts |
ELA.8.USC.2.1D | Use phonics and structural analysis: Choose and use strategies for word identification vocabulary development and spelling that either build on specific strengths or address areas for improvement |
ELA.8.USC.2.1E | Use references: Use a thesaurus to extend vocabulary and locate appropriate words that express particular aspects of meaning |
ELA.8.RT.2.2A | Experience various texts: Experience oral print and other media texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres and write and represent narratives from other points of view |
ELA.8.RT.2.2B | Construct meaning from texts: Interpret the choices and motives of characters portrayed in oral print and other media texts and examine how they relate to self and others |
ELA.8.RT.2.2C | Appreciate the artistry of texts: Recognize that many interpretations of the same text exist and examine other points of view |
ELA.8.UFET.2.3A | Understand forms and genres: Examine how the choice of form and genre in oral visual and multimedia texts is appropriate to the purpose and audience |
ELA.8.UFET.2.3B | Understand techniques and elements: Examine how narrative hooks foreshadowing flashbacks suspense and surprise endings contribute to the effectiveness of plot development |
ELA.8.UFET.2.3C | Experiment with language: Identify creative uses of language and visuals in popular culture and explain how imagery and figurative language create tone and mood |
ELA.8.COT.2.4A | Generate ideas: Create oral print and other media texts related to issues encountered in texts and in own life |
ELA.8.COT.2.4B | Elaborate on the expression of ideas: Retell oral print and other media texts from different points of view |
ELA.8.COT.2.4C | Structure texts: Create oral print and other media texts with both main and minor characters |
ELA.8.PF.3.1A | Focus attention: Plan and organize data collection based on instructions explanations and pre-established parameters |
ELA.8.PF.3.1B | Determine information needs: Select the most appropriate information sources for topic audience purpose and form |
ELA.8.PF.3.1C | Plan to gather information: Choose a plan to access gather and record information according to self-selected parameters |
ELA.8.SP.3.2A | Use a variety of sources: Obtain information from a variety of sources such as artifacts debates forums biographies autobiographies surveys documentaries films CDROMs charts and tables |
ELA.8.SP.3.2B | Access information: Expand and use a variety of tools and text features such as subtitles margin notes key words electronic searches previews reviews visual effects and sound effects to access information |
ELA.8.SP.3.2C | Evaluate sources: Develop and use criteria for evaluating the usefulness currency and reliability of information for a particular research project |
ELA.8.ORE.3.3A | Organize information: Organize ideas and information creatively as well as logically to develop a comparison or chronology or to show a cause-effect relationship |
ELA.8.ORE.3.3B | Record information: Record information accurately and completely in a consistent and appropriate style using quotations and citing sources within footnotes |
ELA.8.ORE.3.3C | Evaluate information: Evaluate the relevance and importance of gathered information address information gaps |
ELA.8.SR.3.4A | Share ideas and information: Plan and facilitate small group and short whole class presentations to share information |
ELA.8.SR.3.4B | Review research process: Assess the research process and consider alternative ways of achieving research goals |
ELA.8.EI.4.1A | Appraise their own and others' work: Share draft oral print and other media texts in a way that will elicit useful feedback |
ELA.8.EI.4.1B | Revise and edit: Work collaboratively to make appropriate revisions based on feedback provided by peers |
ELA.8.EI.4.1C | Enhance legibility: Choose an effective format for documents depending on the content audience and purpose |
ELA.8.EI.4.1D | Expand knowledge of language: Explore and explain ways that new words phrases and manners of expression enter the language as result of factors such as popular culture technology other languages |
ELA.8.EI.4.1E | Enhance artistry: Experiment with figurative language voice sentence patterns camera angle and music to create an impression or mood |
ELA.8.AC.4.2A | Attend to grammar and usage: Use a variety of simple compound and complex sentence structures to communicate effectively and to make writing interesting |
ELA.8.AC.4.2B | Attend to spelling: Extend spelling vocabulary to include words frequently used in literature but infrequently used in oral and other media texts |
ELA.8.AC.4.2C | Attend to capitalization and punctuation: Use quotation marks to identify information taken from secondary sources in own writing |
ELA.8.PS.4.3A | Present information: Plan and facilitate small group and short whole class presentations to share information |
ELA.8.PS.4.3B | Enhance presentation: Present information to achieve a particular purpose and to appeal to interest and background knowledge of reader or audience |
ELA.8.PS.4.3C | Use effective oral and visual communication: Identify and use explicit techniques to arouse and maintain interest and to convince the audience |
ELA.8.PS.4.3D | Demonstrate attentive listening and viewing: Anticipate the organizational pattern of presentations and identify important ideas and supporting details |
ELA.8.ROSC.5.1A | Appreciate diversity: Compare own with others' understanding of people cultural traditions and values portrayed in oral print and other media texts including Aboriginal oral stories and artifacts |
ELA.8.ROSC.5.1B | Relate texts to culture: Compare ways in which oral print and other media texts reflect specific elements of cultures or periods in history including Aboriginal peoples |
ELA.8.ROSC.5.1C | Celebrate accomplishments and events: Participate in organizing and celebrating special events recognizing the appropriateness and significance of language arts including Aboriginal and other cultural community events |
ELA.8.ROSC.5.1D | Use language to show respect: Use inclusive language and actions that demonstrate respect for people of different races cultures genders ages and abilities |
ELA.8.WWG.5.2A | Cooperate with others: Assist in setting and achieving group goals by inviting others to speak suggesting alternatives assigning tasks sharing resources and following up on others ideas |
ELA.8.WWG.5.2C | Evaluate group process: Evaluate the quality of own contributions to group process and offer constructive feedback to others and propose suggestions for improvement |