Eighth Grade Reading Skills
How to Teach Reading Lesson Plans: Eighth Grade Reading Skills
- Reads orally with fluency based on rate, intonation, phrasing, and naturalness
- Self-corrects when reading miscues
- Reads fluently with understanding
- Utilizes prior knowledge
- Uses root words, prefixes, and suffixes
- Uses multiple meanings
- Utilizes synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
- Decodes unknown words using the three-cueing system (e.g., semantics/context meaning, syntax/sentence structure, and graphophonic/sound-symbol correspondence)
- Uses spelling patterns and inflectional endings
- Utilizes figurative language/sound devices (e.g., rhyming, alliteration,
- Utilizes visual aids to completely understand a passage (e.g., picture, list, table, chart, graph)
- Identifies and applies knowledge of organizational patterns (e.g., sequence, cause and effect, compare/contrast)
- Recalls details and justifies
- Makes predictions, draws conclusions, and infers meaning
- Skims and scans to locate key information
- Summarizes or paraphrases a story
- Retells a story
- Uses parts of a book (e.g., title page, table of contents, index, glossary, headings and captions)
- Interprets and uses analogies
- Locates and combines information from reference sources (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, atlas, computer)
- Rereads to determine meaning
- Summarizes main idea and supporting details
- Identifies story elements (e.g., character, setting, plot, theme, mood/tone, conflict, climax, resolution)
- Interprets the various types of genres
- Recognizes author’s purpose (e.g., entertain, persuade, inform); tone (e.g., humorous, persuasive, ominous); point of view (e.g., first person, third person, omniscient)
- Connects literature to real-life situations
- Interprets the meaning of passages
- Recognizes figurative language/literary devices (e.g., metaphors, similes, personification, and hyperbole)
- Recognizes and uses persuasive techniques (e.g., bias, slant, misinformation, propaganda)
- Determines author’s position (author’s personal view) and defends/supports with details
- Reads and follows written and oral directions in passages
- Identifies and interprets specialized vocabulary in a context (jargon)
- Determines the sequence of activities for procedure order forms)
- Identifies information which provides additional clarity (e.g., bold-faced print, illustrations, italics)
- Listens and comprehends oral reading (e.g., teacher, peers, speakers)
- Listens and responds to teacher/peers
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