10/31/2019 IXL - British Columbia grade 8 English language arts curriculum

Skills available for British Columbia grade 8 English language arts curriculum

Objectives are in bold, followed by a list of the IXL English language arts skills that are aligned to that
objective. Students can practise these skills online at www.ixl.com.

Objectives: British Columbia Learning Standards

A Language and text can be a source of creativity and joy.

B Exploring text and story helps us understand ourselves and make connections
to others and to the world.

C Developing our understanding of how language works allows us to use it

purposefully.

D Purpose, audience, and context guide the author's choices in the construction
of text.

E Language can shape ideas and influence others.

F People understand texts differently depending on their worldviews and

perspectives

G Texts are socially, culturally, and historically constructed.

1 Comprehend and connect

1.1 Access information and ideas for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate their relevance,
accuracy, and reliability.

1.2 Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, and visual texts, guide inquiry, and extend thinking

1.3 Recognize and appreciate how different forms, structures, and features of texts reflect different purposes, audiences,
and messages

1.4 Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts

1.5 Recognize and identify the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts

1.6 Recognize how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identity

1.7 Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world

1.8 Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways

1.9 Recognize how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning

Interpret the meaning of allusions (8-O.2)

Interpret figures of speech (8-O.4)

1.1 Recognize and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples' perspectives,
values, beliefs, and points of view

1.11 Develop an awareness of the protocols and ownership associated with First Peoples' texts

1.12 Exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend thinking

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2 Create and communicate

2.1 Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary and informational
texts for a variety of purposes and audiences

2.2 Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to purpose, audience, and
message

2.3 Use an increasing repertoire of conventions of English spelling, grammar, and punctuation

Form and use plurals: review (8-B.1)

Form and use plurals of compound nouns (8-B.2)
Form the singular or plural possessive (8-B.4)
Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns (8-B.5)
Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession (8-B.6)
Identify pronouns and their antecedents (8-C.1)
Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent (8-C.2)
Choose between subject and object pronouns (8-C.3)
Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me" (8-C.4)
Compound subjects and objects with pronouns (8-C.5)
Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns (8-C.6)
Use reflexive pronouns (8-C.7)
Use relative pronouns: who and whom (8-C.9)
Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that (8-C.10)
Correct errors with subject-verb agreement (8-D.3)
Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement (8-D.4)
Use the correct verb – with compound subjects (8-D.5)
Form the progressive verb tenses (8-D.9)
Form the perfect verb tenses (8-D.10)
Rewrite the sentence in active voice (8-D.12)
Order adjectives (8-E.2)
Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives (8-E.6)
Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst (8-E.7)
Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs (8-E.8)
Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst (8-E.9)
Commas with compound and complex sentences (8-F.1)
Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters (8-F.2)
Commas with coordinate adjectives (8-F.3)
What does the punctuation suggest? (8-F.4)
Commas with nonrestrictive elements (8-F.5)
Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses (8-F.6)
Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists (8-F.7)
Use dashes (8-F.8)
Use hyphens in compound adjectives (8-F.9)
Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately (8-F.10)
Formatting quotations and dialogue (8-F.15)
Use the correct homophone (8-J.5)
Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (8-L.1)
Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions (8-L.2)
Use parallel structure (8-L.3)
Misplaced modifiers with pictures (8-L.5)
Select the misplaced or dangling modifier (8-L.6)

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Are the modifiers used correctly? (8-L.7)
Use the correct frequently confused word (8-M.1)
Correct errors with frequently confused words (8-M.2)
Correct errors with signs (8-M.3)

3 Story/text:

3.1 form, function, and genre of texts

3.2 features of written text

3.3 literary elements

3.4 literary devices

Positive and negative connotation (8-J.4)

Analogies (8-J.6)
Analogies: challenge (8-J.7)
Use personification (8-O.1)
Interpret the meaning of allusions (8-O.2)
Identify the source of allusions (8-O.3)
Interpret figures of speech (8-O.4)
Classify figures of speech (8-O.5)

3.5 elements of non-fiction texts

3.6 elements of visual/graphic texts

3.7 argument

3.8 relevance, accuracy, reliability

4 Strategies and processes:

4.1 reading strategies

Words with pre- (8-G.1)

Words with re- (8-G.2)
Words with sub- (8-G.3)
Words with mis- (8-G.4)
Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non- (8-G.5)
Words with -ful (8-G.6)
Words with -less (8-G.7)
Words with -able and -ible (8-G.8)
Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words (8-H.1)
Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots (8-H.2)
Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots (8-H.3)
Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots (8-H.4)
Use guide words (8-I.2)
Use dictionary entries (8-I.3)
Use dictionary definitions (8-I.4)
Use thesaurus entries (8-I.5)
Choose the synonym (8-J.1)
Choose the antonym (8-J.2)
Describe the difference between related words (8-J.3)
Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context (8-K.1)

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Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context (8-K.2)
Use context to identify the meaning of a word (8-K.3)

4.2 oral language strategies

4.3 metacognitive strategies

4.4 writing processes

5 Language features, structures, and conventions:

5.1 features of oral language

5.2 language usage and context

Which sentence is more formal? (8-N.1)

5.3 elements of style

Describe the difference between related words (8-J.3)

Positive and negative connotation (8-J.4)
Use the correct homophone (8-J.5)
Use the correct frequently confused word (8-M.1)
Correct errors with frequently confused words (8-M.2)
Use personification (8-O.1)
Interpret the meaning of allusions (8-O.2)
Identify the source of allusions (8-O.3)
Interpret figures of speech (8-O.4)
Classify figures of speech (8-O.5)

5.4 syntax and sentence fluency

Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (8-A.1)

Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence (8-A.2)
Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence (8-A.3)
Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence (8-A.4)
Is it a direct object or an indirect object? (8-A.5)
Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? (8-A.6)
Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? (8-A.7)
Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on? (8-A.8)
Is it a phrase or a clause? (8-A.9)
Identify prepositional phrases (8-A.10)
Identify appositives and appositive phrases (8-A.11)
Identify dependent and independent clauses (8-A.12)
Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex? (8-A.13)
Combine sentences using relative clauses (8-A.14)
Form and use plurals: review (8-B.1)
Form and use plurals of compound nouns (8-B.2)
Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives (8-B.3)
Form the singular or plural possessive (8-B.4)
Identify pronouns and their antecedents (8-C.1)
Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent (8-C.2)
Choose between subject and object pronouns (8-C.3)
Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me" (8-C.4)
Compound subjects and objects with pronouns (8-C.5)

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Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns (8-C.6)
Use reflexive pronouns (8-C.7)
Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive? (8-C.8)
Use relative pronouns: who and whom (8-C.9)
Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that (8-C.10)
Identify vague pronoun references (8-C.11)
Identify all of the possible antecedents (8-C.12)
Identify transitive and intransitive verbs (8-D.1)
Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns (8-D.2)
Correct errors with subject-verb agreement (8-D.3)
Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement (8-D.4)
Use the correct verb – with compound subjects (8-D.5)
Irregular past tense: review (8-D.6)
Simple past, present and future tense: review (8-D.7)
Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense (8-D.8)
Form the progressive verb tenses (8-D.9)
Form the perfect verb tenses (8-D.10)
Identify active and passive voice (8-D.11)
Rewrite the sentence in active voice (8-D.12)
Identify participles and what they modify (8-D.13)
Identify gerunds and their functions (8-D.14)
Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases (8-D.15)
Identify adjectives (8-E.1)
Identify adverbs (8-E.3)
Choose between adjectives and adverbs (8-E.4)
Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives (8-E.6)
Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst (8-E.7)
Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs (8-E.8)
Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst (8-E.9)
Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (8-L.1)
Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions (8-L.2)
Use parallel structure (8-L.3)
Remove redundant words or phrases (8-L.4)
Misplaced modifiers with pictures (8-L.5)
Select the misplaced or dangling modifier (8-L.6)
Are the modifiers used correctly? (8-L.7)

5.5 conventions

Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns (8-B.5)
Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession (8-B.6)
Commas with compound and complex sentences (8-F.1)
Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters (8-F.2)
Commas with coordinate adjectives (8-F.3)
What does the punctuation suggest? (8-F.4)
Commas with nonrestrictive elements (8-F.5)
Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses (8-F.6)
Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists (8-F.7)
Use dashes (8-F.8)
Use hyphens in compound adjectives (8-F.9)
Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately (8-F.10)
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Correct capitalization errors (8-F.11)

Capitalizing titles (8-F.12)
Formatting titles (8-F.13)
Formatting and capitalizing titles: review (8-F.14)
Formatting quotations and dialogue (8-F.15)
Correct errors with signs (8-M.3)

5.6 presentation techniques

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