The document outlines the learning standards for Grade 8. It lists 10 standards that students are expected to meet which include listening comprehension, oral language fluency, vocabulary enhancement, reading comprehension, literature, viewing comprehension, writing, grammar awareness, study strategies, and attitude towards language and literacy. Each standard provides 3-4 specific skills or objectives that students should know and be able to do to demonstrate they meet that standard.

1. GRADE 8
LEARNING
STANDARDSIgnatius Joseph N Estroga, MA-Eng.
Session 3Session 3

2. ◦ give us a picture of
what to teach
◦What students know and
what they can do out of it
Standards

3. ◦Listening Comprehension
◦oral language fluency
◦vocabulary enhancement
◦reading and
comprehension
◦Literature

4. ◦viewing comprehension
◦Writing
◦grammar awareness and
structure
◦study strategies
◦attitude towards language,
literacy and literature

5. Listening Comprehension
Listen for important points signaled by stress,
intonation, phrasing, pacing, tone, and non-
verbal cues that serve as carriers of meaning in
specific situations.
Employ projective listening
strategies when listening to
descriptive and longer narrative
texts.

6. Listening Comprehension
Listen to validate information,
opinion, or assumption in order
to participate well in a specific
communicative context or
situation.

7. oral language fluency
Vary the stress, intonation, phrasing, pacing, and
tone while reading orally from a prepared
manuscript, delivering prepared lines in a
performance script, or re-enacting an episode or
scene.
Use appropriate verbal and non-verbal
strategies to animate a written script for
purposes of delivering information or executing
a dramatic piece and other performance
speech forms.

8. oral language fluency
Provide structured feedback
on the quality of spoken
discourse based on a
prepared manuscript or
performance script.

9. vocabulary enhancement
Establish the meaning of words and
expressions as they are used in discourse
structures and patterns.
Use context clues and structural analysis to
arrive at the meaning of words and
expressions.

10. Spelling
◦Denouement
◦Beau
◦Ennui
◦Chutzpa
◦Quay
◦Tete-a-tete
◦Tintinabulation

11. reading and comprehension
Organize prior knowledge concerning
the topic of reading or viewing selection
using a variety of graphic organizers.
Respond to information from a reading or
viewing selection through the use of oral
or written short response formats and
differentiated group performance tasks.

12. reading and comprehension
Identify dominant literary
devices and figures of
speech that add color and
heighten meaning in the
reading or viewing selection.

13. Reading Comprehension Skills
◦Shout the skills
you know!

14. Jack and Jill

15. viewing comprehension
◦Demonstrate understanding of the different text
types and genres of programs viewed to
effectively derive information and find meaning
in them
◦Validate mental images of theValidate mental images of the
information conveyed by a programinformation conveyed by a program
viewedviewed

16. Literature
◦Discover literature as a means of
understanding the human being and
the forces he/she to contend with
◦Discover through literature the linksDiscover through literature the links
between one’s life and the lives of peoplebetween one’s life and the lives of people
throughout the worldthroughout the world

17. Parallel Text

18. Writing
Distinguish between
informational and artistic
stances in written discourse and
the specific properties of each
stance.
Identify common language patterns that
exist in specific written discourse

19. grammar awareness and
structure
1.Understands well constructed paragraphs, its structures and
expressions
2.Demonstrates understanding in grammatically correct
sentences
3.Uses standard English conventions in interactions and
transactions; have a good command and facility to
produce in different genres

20. study strategies
◦Exchange and process information
synchronously or asynchronously
with peers and other persons for
purposes of expanding
understanding, limiting inquiry, and
balancing views or opinions.

21. Learning Styles
Multiple Intelligences
Authentic Materials
Differentiated Instruction

22. attitude towards language,
literacy and literature
Exhibit the initiative to innovate
independently or in cooperation with others
in designing, presenting, and sharing
expected outputs of creative and critical
thinking concerning language, literacy, and
literature.

23. ◦1. Listening Comprehension
◦2.oral language fluency
◦3. vocabulary enhancement
◦4. reading and comprehension
◦5.Literature
◦6. viewing comprehension
◦7. Writing
◦8. grammar awareness and structure
◦9. study strategies
◦10. attitude towards language,
literacy and literature

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