Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively.
A knowledge and skills statement is a broad statement of what students must know and be able to do. It generally begins with a learning strand and ends with the phrase “The student is expected to:” Knowledge and skills statements always include related student expectations.
Glossary Support for ELA.8.2.A
a category assigned to a word based on its syntactical function; the eight primary parts of speech include noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, and preposition
in speech or writing, the division of words into syllables
Students should use both print and digital resources such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and diverse types of texts. Students should learn the unique characteristics and capabilities of different types of resources. In some instances, print resources foster the development of note-taking skills, whereas digital resources expand knowledge from a multimodal perspective that may involve photographs, videos, and music.
the initial place(s) and historical era(s) in which a word was derived and developed
