8th Grade 1st semester pass skills

Content:  Short Stories

Skill:  Plot, Setting, Characterization, Theme, Sequence of events, Point of View, Prediction, Inference, Cause/Effect, Foreshadowing, Irony, Motive, Anecdote, Figurative Language, Allusions, Compare & Contrast, Literary Styles

 Content:  Basic Reading Skills

Skill:  Main Idea & Supporting Details, Inference, Critical Reading, Vocabulary Development, and Reading Rate

Content:  Accelerated Reader:

Skill:  Independent sustained reading, read a variety of materials for a variety of purposes, improve comprehension, increase vocabulary, show author’s craft, share information about books and authors, use ideas gained from text to extend personal knowledge 

 

Content: Novel-Fiction

Skill: Plot, setting, characterization, theme, sequence of events, point of view, prediction, inference, cause/effect, foreshadowing, irony, motive, anecdote, figurative language, allusions