Power Standards for Grade 8 English

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POWER STANDARDS Santa Cruz North/South/East Clusters 

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Power Standard  Quarter and

Topic  Plan on how to

address each Meaningfulexpandedsentence(followingbalance,

parallelism andmodification) 

Q1: Topic:GrammarAwareness andStructure 

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PresentRECOUNT Texts(e.g. diaryentries) withvaried adjectives,

appropriatecoordinators andsubordinatorsand other

appropriatedevices

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Power Standard  Quarter andTopic  Plan on how to address

each Listen to points the

speaker emphasizesas signaled by thecontrastive sentencestress, intonation,phrasing, pacing,

tone and non-verbalcues serve ascarriers of meaningthat may aid orinterfere in the

message of the textlistened to 

Q1: Listening  1.Teacher prepares a

variety of sentences withcontrasting ideas usingconnectors(but,however,nevertheless..etc) 2.Teacher preparessentences/dialogues/interviews to be read bythe selected students.The rest of the class will

identify the meaningexpressed in the activity 

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Power Standard  Quarter andTopic  Plan on how to address

each Learner creates blog

on the Internetcommenting onsocial/economicissues and concerns 

Q1: Writing  1.Expose students on

the examples of blogs inthe Internet2.Provide materialsregarding social andeconomic issues like

newspapers for currentevents 3.Let students readeditorials for them tolearn how to give

comments and opinion 

4.Let students write ormake commentsregarding the socialeconomic issues 

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Power Standard  Quarter and

Topic  Plan on how to

address each Evaluate content,elements,features andproperties of areading or

viewing selectionusing a set of criteriadeveloped in

consultation(with peers andthe teacher) 

Q2: ReadingandComprehension 

1.Groupings: usingvariety of visualinstructionalmaterials (e.g.tables, graphs,

information mapscommonly used incontent are texts) 2.Reporting of 

students 3.Giving of feedback 

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Power Standard  Quarter andTopic  Plan on how to address

each Demonstrates

understanding of how abstractinformationpresented indifferent text types

and to note explicitand implicit signalsused by the writer 

Q3:Reading and

Comprehension 1. Exposure of the

students to the differenttext types (instructional,recount, persuasive,explanatory,informational and

literary) 2. Use the different texttypes as scaffold todeeper learning of thestudents 

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Power Standard  Quarter and

Topic  Plan on how to

address each Define wordsfrom contextsthrough wordanalysis (prefix,suffixes, roots) 

Q4:VocabularyDevelopment 

A.Word Games 

1.What’s the Word?

That’s the word! 2.Crossword Puzzles 3.Memory games 4.Structural Analysis 5.Clustering 6.Word Cline