Learning Domain: Social Studies Skills
Standard: Create and use research questions to guide inquiry on an issue or event
Learning Domain: Civics
Standard: Describe ways in which people benefit from and are challenged by working together, including through government, workplaces, voluntary organizations, and families
WA.SEL.6-8.4A
Washington Social Emotional Learning Standards
Grades 6-8
Learning Domain: 4: Social Awareness
Standard: Demonstrates awareness of other people’s emotions, perspectives, cultures, languages, histories, identities, and abilities
WA.SEL.6-8.6C
Washington Social Emotional Learning Standards
Grades 6-8
Learning Domain: 6: Social Engagement
Standard: Contributes productively to one’s school, workplace, and community.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Introduce claim(s) about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information into broader categories as appropriate to achieving purpose; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Develop the topic with relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Use appropriate and varied transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Apply grade 7 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g. “Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims”).
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Introduce claim(s), acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Introduce claim(s) about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information into broader categories as appropriate to achieving purpose; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Develop the topic with relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Use appropriate and varied transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research.
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they ���see� and ���hear� when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others�۪ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others�۪ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others�۪ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Apply grade 7 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g. "Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims").
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Introduce claim(s), acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1���3 above.)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Introduce claim(s) about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information into broader categories as appropriate to achieving purpose; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Develop the topic with relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Use appropriate and varied transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Cluster: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Cluster: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Cluster: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Apply grade 7 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g. “Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims”).
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Introduce claim(s), acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Cluster: Production and Distribution of Writing.
Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.