English Language Arts, Grade 8
Saskatchewan · Grade 8 · English Language Arts — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Comprehend and Respond
Growing as a viewer, listener, and reader in Grade 8: responding analytically to texts on identity, responsibility, and efficacy; evaluating texts for effectiveness, bias, and point of view; and reading and listening across broad genres and cultures.
- Responding to becoming-myself texts
- Responding to seeking-justice texts
- Responding to building-a-better-world texts
- Using inferring and summarizing strategies
- Using cueing systems for unity and coherence
- Viewing critically to evaluate effectiveness
- Listening critically to detect bias
- Reading to evaluate purpose, values, and bias
- Reading information texts and spotting false reasoning
- Reading with fluency and expression
Unit 2: Compose and Create
Growing as someone who represents, speaks, and writes in Grade 8: creating texts on identity, responsibility, and efficacy; carrying out a group inquiry; writing across broad genres including a documented report; and experimenting with forms and techniques.
- Creating telling-my-story texts
- Creating examining-popular-culture texts
- Creating turning-point texts
- Creating and presenting a group inquiry
- Using strategies to communicate meaning
- Using cues to communicate meaning
- Creating multimedia presentations
- Using oral language to interact respectfully
- Using oral language to express complex ideas
- Writing across broad genres
- Experimenting with forms and techniques
Unit 3: Assess and Reflect
Thinking about our own learning in Grade 8: using self- and teacher assessment to set improvement goals, and appraising our own and others' work for clarity, correctness, and variety.
- Using assessment to set improvement goals
- Appraising work for clarity, correctness, and variety
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