Pennsylvania+State+Assessment+Anchors

 R8.A.1.4 Identify and explain main ideas and relevant details R8.A.1.5 Summarize a fictional text as a whole. R8.A.1.6 Identify, describe, and analyze genre of text.  R8.B.1.1. Interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and evaluate components of fiction and literary nonfiction including ** character, plot, setting, and theme. ** R8.B.1.2 Make connections between texts.   **R8.B.3 Understand concepts and organization of nonfictional text. ** R8.B.3.2 Distinguish between essential and nonessential information within or between texts. 
 * Pennsylvania State Assessment Anchors: **
 * R8.A.1.Understand fiction appropriate to grade level. **
 * R8.B.1 Interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and evaluate components within and between texts. **