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Language Arts 6-8
Language Arts - PSSA Skills

Genres
Informational: Expand Meaning
The learner will be able to expand upon the meaning of informational materials.
Strand Scope Source
Informational Text Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Informational: Prior Knowledge
The learner will be able to compare prior knowledge with details from an informational passage.
Strand Scope Source
Informational Text Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.8 week tested: 33.
  
Narrative: Expand/Refine Meaning
The learner will be able to expand upon and refine understanding of the meaning of narrative text.
Strand Scope Source
Narrative Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
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Reading Operations
Monitor: Comprehension/Informational
The learner will be able to understand, select, and apply strategies, such as confirming and revising predictions, to monitor his/her comprehension while reading informational materials.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Strategies: Monitor Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Monitor: Repair/Comprehension
The learner will be able to understand, select, and apply strategies for monitoring and repairing his/her comprehension while reading.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Strategies: Monitor Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Monitor: Repair/Informational
The learner will be able to understand, select, and apply strategies for monitoring and repairing his/her comprehension while reading informational materials.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Strategies: Monitor Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Monitor: Understand/Select/Apply
The learner will be able to understand, select, and apply strategies such as confirming and revising predictions to monitor his/her comprehension while reading.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Strategies: Monitor Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Personal: Respond/Informational
The learner will be able to respond personally to informational writing.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Responses: Personal Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Personal: Respond/Narrative
The learner will be able to respond personally to narrative writing.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Responses: Personal Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Purposes: Information
The learner will be able to read expository texts to acquire information. Such experiences include: understanding expository genres, how expository genres are organized, graphical forms of data found in expository genres, and when to use expository genres.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Purposes Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.6 week tested: 33.
  
Purposes: Literary Experience
The learner will be able to read novels, short stories, poems, plays, and essays to engage in literary experiences. Such experiences include: relating to the way authors' portray human existence, exploring genres, their organization, and authors' reasons for writing in them, investigating authors' styles and methods of telling stories, and feeling as if he/she is living vicariously through characters.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Purposes Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.6 week tested: 33.
  
Strategies: Mental Notes
The learner will be able to mentally note important information in the context of reading text.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Strategies Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Strategies: Mental Notes/Informational
The learner will be able to mentally note important information in the context of reading informational materials.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Strategies Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Task: Read/Perform Tasks
The learner will be able to read to perform a task. Such experiences include: skimming, understanding and acting on functional text such as schedules, forms, maps, and directions. Reading to perform a task differs from reading literary or informational texts in that the emphasis is on applying information to accomplish some task, not on analyzing the text.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Purposes: Tasks Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.6 week tested: 33.
  
Inference: Fiction
The learner will be able to infer meaning from fiction selections.
Strand Scope Source
Inference Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Inference: Nonfiction
The learner will be able to infer meaning from nonfiction selections.
Strand Scope Source
Inference Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Main Idea: Identify
The learner will be able to identify main ideas from reading passages.
Strand Scope Source
Main Idea Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Main Idea: Nonfiction Passage
The learner will be able to identify the main idea in a nonfiction passage.
Strand Scope Source
Main Idea Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Post-Reading: Evaluating
The learner will be able to use post-reading strategies, such as evaluating, to confirm his/her understanding of a given text.
Strand Scope Source
Post-Reading Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Post-Reading: Evaluating/Informational
The learner will be able to use post-reading strategies, such as evaluating, to confirm his/her understanding of an informational text.
Strand Scope Source
Post-Reading Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Post-Reading: Summarizing
The learner will be able to use post-reading strategies, such as summarizing, to confirm his/her understanding of a given text.
Strand Scope Source
Post-Reading Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Post-Reading: Summarizing/Informational
The learner will be able to use post-reading strategies, such as summarizing, to confirm his/her understanding of an informational text.
Strand Scope Source
Post-Reading Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Prereading: Connect/Informational
The learner will be able to apply the use of prereading strategies to form connections between prior knowledge and new information found in informational reading materials.
Strand Scope Source
Pre-Reading Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Prereading: Predictions/Informational
The learner will be able to make predictions about informational materials as a prereading strategy.
Strand Scope Source
Pre-Reading Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Prereading: Purpose/Informational
The learner will be able to apply a variety of prereading strategies to predict purpose of informational text.
Strand Scope Source
Pre-Reading Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Prereading: Strategies/Apply
The learner will be able to apply the use of prereading strategies to form connections between prior knowledge and new information.
Strand Scope Source
Pre-Reading Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Prereading: Strategies/Apply
The learner will be able to apply a variety of prereading strategies to predict text purpose.
Strand Scope Source
Pre-Reading Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Prereading: Strategies/Predictions
The learner will be able to make predictions as a prereading strategy.
Strand Scope Source
Pre-Reading Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Prior Knowledge: Understand Text
The learner will be able to use prior knowledge to understand texts.
Strand Scope Source
Prior Knowledge Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.8 week tested: 33.
  
Question: Self-Question/Informational
The learner will be able to use self-questioning as a strategy for constructing meaning from informational materials.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Strategies: Question Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Question: Use/Self-Questioning
The learner will be able to use self-questioning as a strategy for constructing meaning from reading materials.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Strategies: Question Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Response: Critical/Informational
The learner will be able to respond critically to informational text.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Responses: Critical Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Response: Critical/Narrative
The learner will be able to respond critically to narrative writing.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Responses: Critical Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Strategies: Clarify
The learner will be able to seek to clarify understanding while reading.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Strategies Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Strategies: Clarify/Informational
The learner will be able to seek to clarify understanding while reading informational materials.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Strategies Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Strategies: Paraphrasing/Informational
The learner will be able to use paraphrasing as a strategy to aid in comprehension of informational reading materials.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Strategies Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Strategies: Retelling
The learner will be able to use retelling as a strategy for constructing meaning from reading materials.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Strategies Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Theme: Identify
The learner will be able to identify the theme of a given reading passage.
Strand Scope Source
Themes Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Theme: Nonfiction
The learner will be able to identify theme in nonfiction materials.
Strand Scope Source
Themes Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1997, Grade 8, p.7 week tested: 33.
  
Response: Connection/Culture
The learner will be able to respond to literature by forming connections between a culture and him/herself.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Responses: Affective Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1998, Grade 8, p. 17, Level 4 week tested: 33.
  
Response: Exam/Complex Text
The learner will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the complexity of a reading passage on an exam by responding with informed and sophisticated interpretations, ideas, and reflections.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Responses: Exams Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1998, Grade 8, p. 17, Level 4 week tested: 33.
  
Response: Exam/Connecting
The learner will be able to demonstrate an understanding of a reading passage on an exam by making connections between textual elements, language arts concepts, and his/her personal experiences.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Responses: Exams Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1998, Grade 8, p. 17, Level 4 week tested: 33.
  
Critical Thinking: Reading Materials
The learner will be able to critically examine reading materials.
Strand Scope Source
Critical Thinking Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1998, Grade 8, p. 17, Level 4 week tested: 33.
  
Evaluating: Content
The learner will be able to evaluate the content of reading materials.
Strand Scope Source
Evaluating Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1998, Grade 8, p. 17, Level 4 week tested: 33.
  
Reading Behaviors: Extend/Literal
The learner will be able to extend understanding beyond literal interpretation.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Behaviors Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1998, Grade 8, p. 17, Level 4 week tested: 33.
  
Response: Connections/Issues
The learner will be able to make connections among issues in reading materials.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Responses: Affective Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1998, Grade 8, p. 17, Level 4 week tested: 33.
  
Strategies: Personal Experience
The learner will be able to apply personal experience to understand reading materials.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Strategies Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1998, Grade 8, p. 17, Level 4 week tested: 33.
  
Strategies: Validate Information/Support
The learner will be able to use supporting evidence to verify the validity of reading materials.
Strand Scope Source
Reading Strategies Master PA: System of School Assessment, 1998, Grade 8, p. 17, Level 4 week tested: 33.
  
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