South Dakota ELA 8.W.9
The Standard
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support written analysis, interpretation, reflection, and research, applying one or more grade 8 standards for Reading Literature or Reading Informational text as needed.
South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students make a claim about a story, article, or question they are researching. They choose a relevant quote or paraphrase and explain how it backs their claim.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student picks a detail that fits the claim and explains the connection in their own words. In a short research response, they use details from more than one source without changing what either source says.
Common Misconceptions
- Students drop in a quote and assume it explains itself. They may pick an interesting detail that does not support their claim, or treat a character’s opinion as a proven fact.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Read “The path was flooded, so Jae carried her bike across the field”; explain what Jae’s choice shows about her, quoting one detail and linking it to your claim.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Print a short article and three claim cards; pairs cut out relevant sentences, place them beside each claim, and explain each match.
After reading a class story, ask: “Which detail best shows the narrator’s attitude, and why?” Have students write two sentences.
Give teams four claims and eight excerpt cards; they match each claim to the strongest excerpt and defend one match.
Give students two short articles about school phone rules; have them recommend a rule using one cited detail from each.
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