Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.1.A:
Students locate and use school and public library resources independently to acquire information.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.1.B:
Students apply thinking skills, such as define, classify, and infer, to interpret data, facts, and ideas from informational texts.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.1.C:
Students read and follow written multistep directions or procedures to accomplish a task or complete an assignment.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.1.D:
Students preview informational texts to assess content and organization and select texts useful for the task.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.1.E:
Students use indexes to locate information and glossaries to define terms.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.1.F:
Students use knowledge of structure, content, and vocabulary to understand informational text.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.1.G:
Students distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.1.H:
Students identify missing, conflicting, or unclear information.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.1.I:
Students formulate questions to be answered by reading informational text.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.1.J:
Students compare and contrast information from a variety of different sources.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.1.K:
Students condense, combine, or categorize new information from one or more sources.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.1.L:
Students draw conclusions and make inferences on the basis of explicit and implied information.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.1.M:
Students make, confirm, or revise predictions.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.2.A:
Students read silently and aloud from a variety of genres, authors, and themes.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.2.B:
Students interpret characters, plot, setting, theme, and dialogue, using evidence from the text.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.2.C:
Students identify the author's point of view, such as first-person narrator and omniscient narrator.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.2.D:
Students determine how the use and meaning of literary devices, such as symbolism, metaphor and simile, illustration, personification, flashback, and foreshadowing, convey the author's message or intent.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.2.E:
Students recognize how the author's use of language creates images or feelings.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.2.F:
Students identify poetic elements, such as repetition, rhythm, and rhyming patterns, in order to interpret poetry.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.2.G:
Students compare motives of characters, causes of events, and importance of setting in literature to people, events, and places in own lives.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.2.H:
Students identify social and cultural contexts and other characteristics of the time period in order to enhance understanding and appreciation of text.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.2.I:
Students compare a film, video, or stage version of a literary work with the written version.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.3.A:
Students evaluate the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, themes, opinions, and experiences in texts: for example:

• identify conflicting information
• consider the background and qualifications of the writer
• questions the writer's assumptions, beliefs, intentions, and biases
• evaluate examples, details, or reasons used to support ideas
• identify fallacies of logic that lead to unsupported conclusions
• discriminate between apparent messages and hidden agendas
• identify propaganda and evaluate its effectiveness
• identify techniques the author uses to persuade (e.g., emotional and ethical appeals)
• identify differing points of view in texts and presentations
• identify cultural and ethnic values and their impact on content
• identify multiple levels of meaning

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.3.B:
Students judge a text by using evaluative criteria from a variety of perspectives, such as literary, political, and personal.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.3.C:
Students suspend judgment until all information has been presented.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.4.A:
Students share reading experiences with peers or adults; for example, read together silently or aloud with a partner or in small groups.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.4.B:
Students consider the age, gender, social position, and traditions of the writer.

Performance Indicator - ELA.8.R.4.C:
Students recognize the types of language (e.g., informal vocabulary, culture-specific terminology, jargon, colloquialisms, and email conventions) that are appropriate to social communication.