SCOPE AND SEQUENCE WITH TAKS/TEKS CORRELATIONS
EIGHTH GRADE
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A. Information Acquisition |
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Library Instructional Collaboration |
Resources |
TAKS Objectives |
TEKS |
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8.A.1 Demonstrate appropriate behaviors for locating, checking out, returning, and caring for library materials according to district procedures. |
§ Library Orientation Round Rock ISD
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TAKS Reading #1: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
Social Studies:
113.24.20D
Identify examples of responsible citizenship, including obeying rules. |
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8.A.2 Demonstrate a working knowledge of library terminology, such as renew, hold, on-line resources and on-line catalog. |
TAKS Reading #1: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
Tech Apps:
126.12.4A
Use strategies to locate and acquire desired information. Tech Apps: 126.12.4B Apply appropriate electronic search strategies in the acquisition of information including keyword and Boolean search strategies. |
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8.A.3 Demonstrate an understanding that the card or on-line catalog is an index to the library collection and use the catalog information to locate materials in the library media center. |
TAKS Reading # 1: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts:
110.24.13C
Use multiple sources, including electronic texts, experts, and print resources, to locate information relevant to research questions. Tech Apps: 126.12.4A Use strategies to locate and acquire desired information. |
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8.A.4 Understand and use the Dewey Decimal System to locate materials. |
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Math: 111.24.14A
Identify and apply mathematics to everyday experiences. |
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8.A.5 Locate and use important areas of the Library (circulation area, card catalog/OPAC, fiction, non-fiction, biography, reference and periodical). |
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Tech Apps:
126.12.5B
Demonstrate the ability to access, operate, and manipulate information for secondary storage and remote devices including CD/ROM/laser discs and on-line catalogs. |
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8.A.6 Use a variety of print and non-print sources in the problem solving process, including dictionaries, nonfiction books, thesauri, encyclopedias, experts, CD-ROMs, and Internet resources. |
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Language Arts:
110.24.6C
Locate the meanings, pronunciations, and derivations of unfamiliar words using dictionaries, glossaries and other sources. Language Arts: 110.24.13C Use multiple sources, including electronic texts, experts, and print resources, to locate information relevant to research questions. Tech Apps: 126.12.4A Use strategies to locate and acquire desired information. |
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8.A.7 Analyze information by distinguishing fact from opinion, determining cause and effect, and predicting outcomes to determine usefulness to problem solution. |
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TAKS Reading #4: The student applies critical thinking skills to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.2C
Distinguish between the speaker’s opinion and verifiable fact. Language Arts: 110.24.10J Distinguish fact from opinion in various texts. Language Arts: 110.24.10H Draw inferences such as conclusions or generalizations. Social Studies: 113.24.30B Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions. |
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8.A.8 Understand the role of public libraries, university libraries, museums and community resources as valuable sources of information. |
TAKS Reading #110.3:
The student uses a variety of strategies to analyze culturally. |
Social Studies: 113.24.16A
Identify institutions basic to all societies. |
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8.A.9 Understand that bilingual books and Spanish books are part of the library collection when applicable. |
TAKS Reading #1: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
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B. Reading Literacy |
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Library Instructional Collaboration |
Resources |
TAKS Objectives |
TEKS |
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8.B.1 Listen attentively, critically and purposefully to stories, plays, and poems read aloud for enjoyment and to gain information. |
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TAKS Reading # 1: The student demonstrates
a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts.
TAKS Reading #110.6: The student uses a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts |
Language Arts: 110.24.1A
Determine the purposes for listening such as to gain information, to solve problems, or to enjoy and appreciate. Language Arts: 110.24.9A Develop vocabulary by listening to selections read aloud. |
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8.B.2 Read regularly in independent-level materials. |
TAKS Reading #110.3:
The student uses a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.7A
Read regularly in independent-level materials. Language Arts: 110.24.7C Adjust reading rate based on purposes for reading. Language Arts: 110.24.7E Read silently with increasing ease for longer periods. |
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8.B.3 Explore a variety of multicultural/multiethnic materials. |
§ Multicultural Community – My Home
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TAKS Reading #2:
The student applies knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.4A
Connect his/her own experiences, information, insights and ideas with experiences of others through speaking and listening. Language Arts: 110.24.4B Compare oral traditions across regions and cultures. Language Arts: 110.24.4C Identify how language use such as labels and sayings reflects regions and cultures. Language Arts: 110.24.14A Compare events with his/her own and other reader’s experiences. Language Arts: 110.24.14B Determine distinctive and common characteristics of cultures through wide reading. Language Arts: 110.24.14C Articulate and discuss themes and connections that cross cultures. |
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8.B.4 Self-select, read and respond to materials from a variety of literary genre for pleasure reading and/or to acquire information, such as non-fiction, fiction, poetry, magazines, newspapers, and electronic texts. |
§ Lighthouses (fiction and nonfiction
Web Lessons |
TAKS Reading #110.3:
The student uses a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.7A
Read regularly in independent-level materials. Language Arts: 110.24.8A Read classic and contemporary works. Language Arts: 110.24.8B Select varied sources such as plays, anthologies, novels, textbooks, poetry, newspapers, manuals, and electronic texts when reading for information or pleasure. Language Arts: 110.24.8C Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writers’ craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing. Language Arts: 110.24.10B Establish and adjust purposes for reading such as reading to find out, to understand, to interpret to enjoy and to solve problems. Language Arts: 110.24.12B Recognize the distinguishing features of genre, including biography, historical fiction, informational texts, and poetry. |
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8.B.5 Explore works from award lists such as Bluebonnet, Newbery , Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King titles, and recognize the significance of these awards. |
TAKS Reading # 1:
The student demonstrates a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. TAKS Reading #2: The student applies knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.7A
Read regularly in independent-level materials. Language Arts: 110.24.8A Read classic and contemporary works. Language Arts: 110.24.8B Select varied sources such as plays, anthologies, novels, textbooks, poetry, newspapers, manuals, and electronic texts when reading for information or pleasure. Language Arts: 110.24.8C Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writers’ craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing. |
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8.B.6 Read or listen to, and understand, a variety of literary forms such as fiction, poetry, myths, fables, tall tales, folktales, plays, informational books, biographies and autobiographies. |
Cinderella Around the World Writing Webquest T-Chart (Compare and contrast two types of genre). Venn Diagram (Compare and contrast genre). |
TAKS Reading #110.3:
The student uses a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.7A
Read regularly in independent-level materials. Language Arts: 110.24.8A Read classic and contemporary works. Language Arts: 110.24.8B Select varied sources such as plays, anthologies, novels, textbooks, poetry, newspapers, manuals, and electronic texts when reading for information or pleasure. Language Arts: 110.24.8C Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writers’ craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing. |
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8.B.7 Recognize the distinguishing features and purposes of literary genre, including biography, autobiography, historical fiction, informational text, poetry, mystery and science fiction. |
Learning about Books and Libraries, A Gold Mine of Games by Carol K. Lee. 157950051X Science Fiction Writing Activities T-Chart (Compare and contrast two types of genre) Venn Diagram (Compare and contrast genre) |
TAKS Reading #3: The student will use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.12A
Identify the purposes of different types of texts such as to inform, influence, express, or entertain. Language Arts: 110.24.12B Recognize the distinguishing features of genre, including biography, historical fiction, informational texts, and poetry. Language Arts: 110.24.12E Understand literary forms by recognizing and distinguishing among such types of text as stories, poems, myths, fables, tall tales, limericks, plays, biographies and autobiographies. |
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8.B.8 Understand literary terms such as author, illustrator, fact, fantasy, fiction, and nonfiction. |
TAKS Reading #110.3: The student uses a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.12D
Understand and identify literary terms such as, playwright, theater, stage, act, dialogue, analogy and scene across a variety of literary forms. Language Arts: 110.24.12E Understand literary forms by recognizing and distinguishing among such types of text as stories, poems, myths, fables, tall tales, limericks, plays, biographies and autobiographies. |
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8.B.9 Distinguish and appreciate the styles of various authors and illustrators. |
TAKS Reading #.3:
Demonstrate the ability to analyze and critically evaluate culturally diverse written texts and visual representations. |
Language Arts: 110.24.7A
Read regularly in independent-level materials. Language Arts: 110.24.12H Describe how the author’s perspective or point of view affects the text. Language Arts: 110.24.12I Analyze ways authors organize and present ideas such as through cause/effect, compare/contrast, inductively, deductively or chronologically. Language Arts: 110.24.12J Recognize and interpret literary devices such as flashback, foreshadowing, and symbolism. Language Arts: 110.24.22A Describe how illustrators’ choice of style, elements, and media help to represent or extend the text’s meaning. |
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8.B.10 Identify different versions of stories. |
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Language Arts: 110.24.8A
Read classic and contemporary works. Language Arts: 110.24.10I Find similarities and differences across texts such as in treatment, scope or organization. Language Arts: 110.24.11D Connect, compare, and contrast ideas, themes, and issues across text. Language Arts: 110.24.12C Compare communications in different forms such as contrasting a dramatic performance with a print version of the same story or comparing story variants. Social Studies: 113.24.27C Identify examples of American art, music, and literature that transcend American culture and convey universal themes. |
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8.B.11 Participate in various reading incentive programs. |
§ Accelerated Reading Program |
TAKS Reading #1: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.7A
Read regularly in independent-level materials. Language Arts: 110.24.7E Read silently with increasing ease for longer periods. Language Arts: 110.24.8C Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writers’ craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing. |
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8.B.12 Demonstrate the correlation between the classroom reading program and library experiences. |
Web Lesson: |
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Language Arts: 110.24.7A
Read regularly in independent-level materials. Language Arts: 110.24.7B Read regularly in instructional-level materials that are challenging but manageable. Language Arts: 110.24.8C Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writers’ craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing. |
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8.B.13 Identify and use periodicals for entertainment. |
§ The Importance of Periodical Literature
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Language Arts: 110.24.8C
Read for varied purposes such as to be informed, to be entertained, to appreciate the writers’ craft, and to discover models for his/her own writing. Language Arts: 110.24.12A Identify the purposes of different types of texts such as to inform, influence, express, or entertain. Language Arts: 110.24.12B Recognize the distinguishing features of genre, including biography, historical fiction, informational texts, and poetry. |
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8.B.14 Distinguish between reality and fantasy. |
TAKS Reading #2:
The student applies knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts.
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Language Arts: 110.24.12E
Understand literary forms by recognizing and distinguishing among such types of text as stories, poems, myths, fables, tall tales, limericks, plays, biographies and autobiographies. |
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8.B.15 Use comprehension skills to retell or summarize information. |
TAKS Reading # 1:
The student demonstrates a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. TAKS Reading #2: The student applies knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. TAKS Reading #110.3: The student uses a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.10E
Use the text’s structure or progression of ideas such as cause and effect or chronology to locate and recall information. Language Arts: 110.24.10G Use paraphrase and summarize text to recall, inform, or organize ideas. Language Arts: 110.24.10H Draw inferences from conclusions or generalizations and support them with text evidence and experience. Language Arts: 110.24.20D Summarize and organize ideas gained from multiple sources in useful ways such as outlines, conceptual maps, learning logs and time lines. Social Studies: 113.24.30B Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions. |
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8.B.16 Become familiar with feelings and emotions of characters. |
TAKS Reading #2:
The student applies knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.12F
Analyze characters, including their traits, motivations, conflicts, points of view, relationships, and changes they undergo. Language Arts: 110.24.12K Recognize how style, tone, and mood contribute to the effect of the text. |
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8.B.17 Identify the setting of a story. |
TAKS Reading #2:
The student applies knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.12G
Recognize and analyze story plot, setting, and problem resolution. |
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8.B.18 Demonstrate information literacy by recalling facts and details from reading fiction and non-fiction literature. |
Web Lesson: |
TAKS Reading #2: The student applies knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.10F
Determine a text’s main idea (or major ideas) and how those ideas are supported with details. |
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8.B.19 Identify and recognize conflict in stories. |
Web Lesson:
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TAKS Reading #2: The student applies knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.12F
Analyze characters, including their traits, motivations, conflicts, points of view, relationships, and changes they undergo. Language Arts: 110.24.12G Recognize and analyze story plot, setting, and problem resolution. |
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8.B.20 Use comprehensive skills to draw conclusions from whatever is read. |
Web Lesson: |
TAKS Reading #3: The student will use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.10C
Monitor his/her own comprehension and make modifications when understanding breaks down such as rereading a portion aloud, using reference aids, searching for clues, and asking questions. Language Arts: 110.24.10H Draw inferences from conclusions or generalizations and support them with text evidence and experience. Language Arts: 110.24.12F Analyze characters, including their traits, motivations, conflicts, points of view, relationships, and changes they undergo. Social Studies: 113.24.30B Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions. |
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8.B.21 Develop vocabulary through listening and reading. |
§ Holes by Louis Sachar |
TAKS Reading #3: The student will use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.9A
Develop vocabulary by listening to selections read aloud. Language Arts: 110.24.9B Draw on experiences to bring meanings to words in context such as interpreting idioms, multiple-meaning words, and analogies. |
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C. Research & Technology Application |
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Library Instructional Collaboration |
Resources |
TAKS Objectives |
TEKS |
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8.C.1 Identify and define a specific problem or task for research, investigation or discussion. |
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TAKS Reading #4: The student will apply critical thinking skills to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.10B
Establish and adjust purposes for reading such as reading to find out, to understand, to interpret to enjoy and to solve problems. Language Arts: 110.24.18A Generate ideas and plans for writing by using prewriting strategies such as brainstorming, graphic organizers, notes and logs. Math: 111.24.14B Use a problem-solving model that incorporates understanding the problem, making a plan, carrying out the plan, and evaluating the solution for reasonableness. Social Studies: 113.24.32A Use a problem-solving process to identify a problem, gather information, list and consider options, consider advantages and disadvantages, choose and implement a solution and evaluate the effectiveness of a solution. Social Studies: 113.24.32B Use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision, gather information, identify options, predict consequences, and take action to implement a decision. |
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8.C.2 Generate ideas or relevant questions as a basis for inquiry/research |
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TAKS Writing #1: Composition |
Language Arts: 110.24.13A
Form and revise questions for investigations, including questions arising from readings, assignments and units of study. Language Arts: 110.24.18A Generate ideas and plans for writing by using prewriting strategies such as brainstorming, graphic organizers, notes and logs. Language Arts: 110.24.20A Frame questions to direct research Science: 112.24.2A Plan and implement investigative procedures including asking questions, formulating testable hypotheses, and selecting and using equipment and technology. Social Studies: 113.24.32A Use a problem-solving process to identify a problem, gather information, list and consider options, consider advantages and disadvantages, choose and implement a solution and evaluate the effectiveness of a solution. Social Studies: 113.24.32B Use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision, gather information, identify options, predict consequences, and take action to implement a decision. |
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8.C.3 Select and use appropriate print and non-print sources, such as nonfiction books, dictionaries, thesauri, atlases, encyclopedias, experts, CD-ROMs, on-line encyclopedias, Internet resources, OPAC and curriculum-based software to locate information relevant to research questions. |
TAKS Reading #4: The student will apply critical thinking skills to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.9C
Use multiple reference aids, including a thesaurus, a synonym finder, a dictionary, and software to clarify meanings and usage. Language Arts: 110.24.13A Form and revise questions for investigations, including questions arising from readings, assignments and units of study. Language Arts: 110.24.13C Use multiple sources, including electronic texts, experts, and print resources, to locate information relevant to research questions Language Arts: 110.24.13D Interpret and use graphic sources of information such as maps, graphs, timelines, or tables to address research questions. Language Arts: 110.24.16E Use resources to find correct spellings. Language Arts: 110.24.18I Select and use reference materials and resources as needed for writing, revising and editing final drafts. Language Arts: 110.24.20D Summarize and organize ideas gained from multiple sources in useful ways such as outlines, conceptual maps, learning logs and time lines. Science: 112.24.3E Connect Grade 8 science concepts with the history of science and contributions of scientists. Social Studies: 113.24.3B Pose and answer questions about geographic distributions and patterns for selected world regions and countries shown on maps, graph, charts, models, and databases. Social Studies: 113.24.3C Compare selected world regions and countries using data from maps, graphs, charts, databases and models. |
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8.C.4 Recognize that different parts of a book offer information, such as cover, spine, title page, table of contents, glossary and index. |
TAKS Reading#1: The student demonstrates a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.13B
Use text organizers, including headings, graphic features, and table of contents to locate and organize information. |
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8.C.5 Identify and use periodicals for information. |
Web Lesson: § Scholarly Articles vs Popular Articles § By Aparna Zambare |
TAKS Reading#1: The student demonstrates a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.8B
Select varied sources such as plays, anthologies, novels, textbooks, poetry, newspapers, manuals, and electronic texts when reading for information or pleasure. Tech Apps: 126.12.12D Evaluate the product for relevance to the assignment or task. |
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8.C.6 Determine between primary and secondary sources. |
Primary and Secondary Resources T-Chart Primary and Secondary Resources
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TAKS Reading #2: The student will apply knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Social Studies: 113.24.30A
Differentiate between, locate, and use primary and secondary sources. |
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8.C.7 Develop skills in gathering, analyzing, interpreting, organizing and evaluating information to determine usefulness to problem solution. |
§ Big6 |
TAKS Reading #4:
The student applies critical thinking skills to analyze culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.13E
Summarize and organize information from multiple sources by taking notes, outlining ideas, and making charts. Language Arts: 110.24.20C Take notes from relevant and authoritative sources such as guest speakers, periodicals, and on-line searches. Language Arts: 110.24.20D Summarize and organize ideas gained from multiple sources in useful ways such as outlines, conceptual maps, learning logs and time lines. Social Studies: 113.24.30C Organize and interpret information from outlines, reports, databases and visuals including graphs, charts, timelines, and maps. Tech Apps: 126.12.12D Evaluate the product for relevance to the assignment or task. |
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8.C.8 Use comprehension skills to draw conclusions from whatever is read. |
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Language Arts: 110.24.10H
Draw inferences from conclusions or generalizations and support them with text evidence and experience. Language Arts: 110.24.13G Draw conclusions from information gathered from multiple sources. |
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8.C.9 Use comprehension skills to retell or summarize information. |
TAKS Reading #2: The student will apply knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.13E
Summarize and organize information from multiple sources by taking notes, outlining ideas, and making charts. Language Arts: 110.24.20D Summarize and organize ideas gained from multiple sources in useful ways such as outlines, conceptual maps, learning logs and time lines. |
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8.C.10 Extract useful information from resources using keywords and main ideas. |
TAKS Reading # 1:
The student demonstrates a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.13E
Summarize and organize information from multiple sources by taking notes, outlining ideas, and making charts. |
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8.C.11 Demonstrate information literacy by recalling facts and details from listening to and reading fiction and nonfiction literature. |
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TAKS Reading # 1:
The student demonstrates a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. |
Language Arts: 110.24.10F
Determine a text’s main idea (or major ideas) and how those ideas are supported with details. Language Arts: 110.24.13E Summarize and organize information from multiple sources by taking notes, outlining ideas, and mak |