8th Grade ELA (Georgia's K-12 ELA Standards)

6-8.L.GC.1 Grammar: use standard grammar, usage and mechanics

• Grade 8 grammar, usage and mechanics skills are set out in the state's GUM chart, which has no separate codes.

6-8.L.GC.2 Grammar: use sentence structure to understand, combine and clarify ideas

• 8.L.GC.2.a Use knowledge of syntax to understand and analyze grade-level texts.
• 8.L.GC.2.b Combine ideas with varied sentence types while keeping verb tense consistent.
• 8.L.GC.2.c Tell active from passive voice and revise toward consistent active voice.
• 8.L.GC.2.d Work modifying phrases and clauses into sentences, removing misplaced and dangling modifiers.

6-8.L.V.1–3 Vocabulary: general and subject words, word analysis, meaning and connotation

• Vocabulary expectations for grades 6–8 carry band codes (6-8.L.V.1.a to 6-8.L.V.3.e) and are listed on the Grade 6 page.

6-8.T.C.1 Context: analyze how purpose and audience shape texts

• 8.T.C.1.a Analyze how the different purposes of a text target particular audiences.
• 8.T.C.1.b Use text features to help understand subject-area texts.
• 8.T.C.1.c Build multimodal texts that serve more than one purpose for a target audience.

6-8.T.C.2 Context: analyze how perspectives and circumstances shape texts

• 8.T.C.2.a Compare perspectives across texts and how they shape beliefs.
• 8.T.C.2.b Identify an author's bias and how it affects credibility.
• 8.T.C.2.c Analyze how background and context shape how a text develops.
• 8.T.C.2.d Use a range of credible sources to research answers to questions.

6-8.T.SS.1 Structure and style: analyze and use organizational structures

• 8.T.SS.1.a Analyze how authors adapt structures or features for meaning and purpose.
• 8.T.SS.1.b Design texts flexibly with structures and features suited to purpose.
• 8.T.SS.1.c Use varied words, phrases and clauses to move between and unify ideas.
• 8.T.SS.1.d Write multi-paragraph texts with logically linked support and a conclusion that feels complete.

6-8.T.SS.2 Structure and style: interpret and use language for effect

• 8.T.SS.2.a Analyze how figurative, connotative and literary choices are used strategically for an audience.
• 8.T.SS.2.b Use figurative, literary or connotative language on purpose in writing.
• 8.T.SS.2.c Use formal or informal style to suit purpose, audience and subject.

6-8.T.T.1 Techniques: narrative

• 8.T.T.1.a Analyze how narrative techniques develop plot, characters and setting.
• 8.T.T.1.b Analyze how plot elements combine to create effects such as suspense.
• 8.T.T.1.c Analyze how authors develop and reveal themes through characters and events.
• 8.T.T.1.d Analyze how modern works draw on themes or character types from earlier periods.
• 8.T.T.1.e Use narrative techniques to strengthen writing and engage readers.

6-8.T.T.2 Techniques: expository

• 8.T.T.2.a Analyze how expository techniques develop more than one main idea.
• 8.T.T.2.b Analyze how authors writing on one topic stress different evidence or interpretations.
• 8.T.T.2.d Use several expository techniques to strengthen writing.

6-8.T.T.3 Techniques: argument

• 8.T.T.3.a Analyze argument techniques, including logical evidence and rebuttal.
• 8.T.T.3.c Use argument techniques, including a rebuttal, to strengthen writing.

6-8.T.T.4 Techniques: poetry

• 8.T.T.4.a Analyze poetic techniques such as stanzas, rhyme scheme, imagery and cacophony.
• 8.T.T.4.b Use poetic techniques to write poems that engage readers.

6-8.T.RA.1 Research: questions and credible sources

• 8.T.RA.1.a Ask research questions and link related topics of interest.
• 8.T.RA.1.b Gather and combine information from credible print, digital and personal sources.
• 8.T.RA.1.c Use research to support, challenge or extend ideas in texts.

6-8.T.RA.2 Research: curate sources and cite evidence

• 8.T.RA.2.a Find evidence in print, digital and multimodal sources and record it following MLA guidance.
• 8.T.RA.2.b Judge sources for accuracy, credibility, relevance and appeal to an audience.
• 8.T.RA.2.c Follow MLA guidance for in-text citations and works cited entries.

6-8.T.PM.1 Periods and movements: themes, genres and styles of literary periods

• 8.T.PM.1.a Compare myths or stories that modern writers have adapted.
• 8.T.PM.1.b Compare how different writers of one period treat a shared theme.