SaskatchewanGrade 8
SK Grade 8 English Curriculum
Lessons and practice for every Grade 8 English topic. Aligned to what Saskatchewan schools teach. Build reading, writing, and critical thinking skills at your own pace.
SK Grade 8 English Curriculum | StudyPugHelp
SO_ID | Outcome | StudyPug Topic |
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ELA.8.CR8.1.a | Text comprehension and identity exploration: View listen to read and respond to visual multimedia oral and print texts addressing identity social responsibility and efficacy themes reflecting diverse identities worldviews and backgrounds |
ELA.8.CR8.1.b | Reading comprehension and critical analysis: Demonstrate comprehension by understanding ideas using text structures and responding to texts - summarize explain ideas make connections give supported opinions and organize responses around clear premises |
ELA.8.CR8.1.c | Character analysis with textual evidence: Explain motivation of characters in literary texts providing evidence from each text |
ELA.8.CR8.1.d | Literary techniques and mood identification: Identify and describe techniques used to create mood in visual oral written and multimedia including digital texts |
ELA.8.CR8.1.e | Personal response and literary preferences: Explain preferences for various texts genres or specific authors |
ELA.8.CR8.1.f | Schema building and text connections: Identify and explain connections between new ideas and information and previous beliefs values and experiences |
ELA.8.CR8.1.g | Critical media literacy and bias recognition: Identify stereotyping in what is seen heard and read and begin to recognize its negative impact on individuals and society |
ELA.8.CR8.1.h | Media literacy and cultural representation analysis: Identify techniques used to create particular effects or portray various people and cultures |
ELA.8.CR8.1.i | Comparative analysis and cultural understanding: Discuss how similar ideas people experiences and traditions are conveyed in variety of oral print and other texts |
ELA.8.CR8.1.j | Personal growth through literature: Consider how text has contributed to understanding of self and others including cultural groups |
ELA.8.CR8.1.k | Critical evaluation skills: Describe and give examples to explain personal criteria for assessing and responding to what is viewed heard or read |
ELA.8.CR8.1.l | Critical analysis and evaluation: Evaluate the content quality organization and presentation of a text |
ELA.8.CR8.1.m | Digital literacy and reflective writing: Produce response journals and use interactive websites such as web logs blogs that serve as journals |
ELA.8.CR8.1.n | Text analysis and comprehension: Describe purpose of specific texts and explain how their key features aid understanding |
ELA.8.CR8.2.a | Reading preparation and comprehension strategies: Apply before strategies including tap activate build prior knowledge ask questions preview text anticipate message predict content and set purpose |
ELA.8.CR8.2.b | Active reading and meaning construction: Apply during strategies including connect construct meaning note key ideas construct mental images make confirm adjust predictions inferences ask questions use cueing systems and adjust rate |
ELA.8.CR8.2.c | Reading reflection and critical thinking: Apply after strategies including recall paraphrase summarize synthesize reflect interpret evaluate respond personally and listen read view again to deepen understanding |
ELA.8.CR8.3.a | Language system understanding: Recognize and understand pragmatic textual syntactical semantic graphophonic and other cues and conventions in visual oral print and multimedia texts |
ELA.8.CR8.3.b | Comprehensive language analysis: Use language cues and conventions to construct monitor and confirm meaning including pragmatic textual syntactical semantic graphophonic and other cues |
ELA.8.CR8.4.a | Visual literacy and media analysis: Demonstrate behaviors of effective viewer including formulating questions relating text recognizing main ideas and reflecting on purpose |
ELA.8.CR8.4.b | Digital literacy and information processing: Demonstrate ability to navigate and process information when viewing websites films videos and presentations |
ELA.8.CR8.4.c | Media production analysis: Identify different techniques including data displays used in different media works including digital to impact viewers |
ELA.8.CR8.4.d | Creative expression and popular culture: Identify creative uses of language in visual and multimedia texts including those associated with popular culture |
ELA.8.CR8.4.e | Comparative media analysis: Compare how various forms of media cover the same topic |
ELA.8.CR8.4.f | Information literacy and visual analysis: Compare various styles of data displays for clarity and effectiveness |
ELA.8.CR8.4.g | Critical evaluation of media: Evaluate overall effectiveness and impact of range of individual visual and multimedia texts including digital texts |
ELA.8.CR8.5.a | Listening comprehension and engagement: Demonstrate behaviors of effective listener including adapting focus keeping open mind determining congruency between verbal and non-verbal cues and seeking clarification |
ELA.8.CR8.5.b | Listening comprehension skills: Demonstrate ability to process information when listening to formal presentation including podcast |
ELA.8.CR8.5.c | Comparative analysis through listening: Make connections among different texts by comparing features including themes issues styles and appeal |
ELA.8.CR8.5.d | Critical listening and analysis: Paraphrase speaker's purpose and point of view |
ELA.8.CR8.5.e | Critical thinking through listening: Listen critically to evaluate others ideas or opinions |
ELA.8.CR8.5.f | Media literacy and critical evaluation: Evaluate credibility of speaker and various ways visual images communicate information and affect impressions and opinions |
ELA.8.CR8.5.g | Critical analysis of oral information: Demonstrate ability to analyze informational texts differentiating between fact and opinion and recognizing point of view biases and stereotypes |
ELA.8.CR8.6.a | Reading comprehension strategies: Demonstrate behaviors of effective reader including previewing anticipating reading with purpose making notes considering author's reasoning and recognizing biases |
ELA.8.CR8.6.b | Literature analysis and understanding: Demonstrate understanding of main ideas events or themes of novels stories poetry and other oral print and electronic media |
ELA.8.CR8.6.c | Research and information literacy: Interpret and report on information obtained from more than one source to inform others |
ELA.8.CR8.6.d | Study skills and information organization: Use various forms of note making appropriate to purpose and situation |
ELA.8.CR8.6.e | Functional literacy skills: Demonstrate ability to comprehend and use everyday texts making judgements about purpose and importance |
ELA.8.CR8.6.f | Study strategies and learning techniques: Utilize note making and outlining as learning tools |
ELA.8.CR8.6.g | Literary analysis and cultural understanding: Show understanding that author's experience background and culture influenced treatment of theme |
ELA.8.CR8.6.h | Character study and literary analysis: Identify with and develop understanding of characters from what they say and do and what others say about them |
ELA.8.CR8.6.i | Self-directed learning and reading choice: Select independently texts that address learning needs and interests |
ELA.8.CR8.7 | Non-fiction reading and analysis: Read independently and demonstrate comprehension of information texts understanding main ideas and supporting evidence explaining connections and recognizing biases |
ELA.8.CR8.8 | Reading fluency and expression: Read Grade 8 appropriate texts to increase fluency 140-180 wcpm orally 180-230 silently and expression |
ELA.8.CC8.1.a | Creative composition and identity exploration: Create variety of texts representing experiences ideas and information about identity social responsibility and efficacy with clarity correctness and variety |
ELA.8.CC8.1.b | Writing craft and communication effectiveness: Create speeches writing and representations with effective message content organization coherence and language conventions including clear purpose varied structure complete sentences and correct mechanics |
ELA.8.CC8.1.c | Communication and perspective sharing: Represent articulate and explain personal viewpoints clearly |
ELA.8.CC8.1.d | Collaborative communication skills: Summarize main ideas encourage others disagree courteously answer questions clearly and add to others ideas |
ELA.8.CC8.1.e | Collaborative learning and inquiry: Participate in group inquiry related to themes and issues being studied in English language arts |
ELA.8.CC8.2.a | Research preparation and topic exploration: Determine personal knowledge of topic to generate possible areas of inquiry or research |
ELA.8.CC8.2.b | Inquiry skills and question development: Formulate relevant questions on topic to establish purpose for gathering information |
ELA.8.CC8.2.c | Collaborative planning and resource identification: Contribute ideas knowledge and strategies to help identify group information needs and sources |
ELA.8.CC8.2.d | Digital collaboration and planning: Collaborate with others using technology to plan inquiry |
ELA.8.CC8.2.e | Research methodology and information management: Prepare and use plan to access gather and record in own words relevant information |
ELA.8.CC8.2.f | Research synthesis and analysis: Gather information from variety of sources and integrate ideas in analysis |
ELA.8.CC8.2.g | Information management and prioritization: Organize information and ideas in order of priority according to topic and task requirements |
ELA.8.CC8.2.h | Study skills and summarization: Make notes in point form summarizing major ideas and supporting details |
ELA.8.CC8.2.i | Digital literacy and data management: Sort organize classify and extend data using information technology tools |
ELA.8.CC8.2.j | Flexible research approaches: Adjust inquiry and research strategies to accommodate changing perspectives and availability of information |
ELA.8.CC8.2.k | Research ethics and citation: Document cited resources within presentations and composition |
ELA.8.CC8.2.l | Academic language and inquiry skills: Use language of inquiry including process procedure and presentation preparation questions |
ELA.8.CC8.3.a | Writing process awareness: Demonstrate understanding of creating process by preparing pre-writing creating drafts revising and creating final product |
ELA.8.CC8.3.b | Writing process management: Progress through stages of creating process before during and after as needed |
ELA.8.CC8.3.c | Complete writing process strategies: Use several strategies before during and after representing speaking and writing including all phases of planning drafting revising editing and publishing with attention to content organization language conventions and presentation |