Anchor Standards broadly define the college and career readiness foundation for grade-specific standards.

College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing - Grade 8

Gather and integrate relevant information from multiple print and digital sources.

Assess credibility and accuracy. Avoid plagarism.

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Grade 8 – CCSS - Student Friendly Writing Standards

Text Types and Purposes

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.1___I can write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.1a___I can introduce claim(s and acknowledge and distinguish alternate or opposing claims.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.1b___I can logically support and organize reasons and relevant evidence for claims.

___I can use accurate, credible sources and demonstrate understanding of the topic or text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.1c___I can use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion.

___I can clarify relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.1d___I can establish and maintain a formal style.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.1e___I can write a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.2___I can write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic.

___I can convey ideas, concepts, and information by selection, organization, and analysis of relevancy.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.2a___I can introduce a topic clearly and preview what is to follow.

___I can organize ideas, concepts, and information into broader categories.

___I can create formats useful for comprehension -(e.g., headings, charts, tables, and multimedia).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.2b___I can develop topics with relevant facts, definitions, details, quotations, information and examples.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.2c___I can use appropriate and varied transitions to create cohesion.

___I can clarify relationships among ideas and concepts.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.2d___I can use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain a topic.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.2e___I can establish and maintain a formal style.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.2f___I can write conclusions or sections that follow from and support information or an explanation..

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.3___I can write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events.

___I can use effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.3a___I can engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view.

___I can introduce a narrator and/or characters.

___I can organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.3b___I can use narrative techniques to develop experiences, events, and characters

(e.g., dialogue, pacing, description, and reflection).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.3c___I can use transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and shifts in time or setting.

___I can use transition words to show relationships among experiences and events.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.3d___I can use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language.

___I can capture action and convey experiences and events.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.3e___I can provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on narrated experiences or events.

Production and Distribution of Writing

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.4___I can develop, organize, and use style appropriate to task, purpose and audience produce clear and coherent (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are in standards 1–3 above.)

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.5___ I can, with some guidance, revise, edit, rewrite, or try a new approach for effective purpose and addressing audience. (Edit to demonstrate command of grade 8 Language standards 1–3.).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.6___I can use technology and the Internet to produce and publish writing.

___I can link to and cite sources and interact and collaborate with others.

Research to Build and Present Knowledge

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.7___I can conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), ___I can draw on sources to generate additional related, focused questions for multiple explorations.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.8___I can use search terms effectively and gather relevant information from print and digital sources.

___I can quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others and assess credibility and accuracy.

___I can avoiding plagiarism and follow a standard format for citation.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.9___I can draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.9a___I can apply grade 8 Reading standards to analyze how modern literature is influenced by past literature (e.g., analyze themes, patterns of events, or character types

from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible

to describe how past material is made new”).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.9b___I can apply grade 8 Reading standards to literary nonfiction

(e.g., delineate and evaluate argument and specific claims in a text; assess for sound reasoning and sufficient, relevant evidence; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced).

Range of Writing

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.10___I can write for research, reflection, and revision over extended and shorter time frames.

___I can write for a range of discipline specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.