FAST ELA Grade 8 case studies
FAST ELA Grade 8 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
FAST ELA Grade 8 is Florida's statewide English Language Arts assessment for eighth graders, part of the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) program. It is taken by students in Florida public schools, including charter and virtual settings, and by students who transfer in and must demonstrate grade-level proficiency. The FAST ELA Grade 8 case studies are 5 cases and about 3,279 words.
1The Radio Room: Choosing Evidence for an Inference
Reyes is scoring short-answer responses for her Grade 8 class after reading an excerpt from 'The Radio Room,' a story about Tomas, a 14-year-old who repairs old radios in his family's garage. The excerpt explains that the radio on Tomas's workbench was a gift from his grandfather, who died last year.
723 words, about 4 min2Bus Route 14: Repetition, Line Breaks, and Connotation
In a Grade 8 lesson on 'Bus Route 14,' a 12-line poem, the speaker rides the same bus past closed shops. The phrase 'the same six blocks' appears in lines 2, 7, and 12.
642 words, about 3 min3Urban Heat: Integrating an Article and a Podcast
Patel's Grade 8 class is preparing a paragraph for a mock city council meeting on urban heat. Source 1 is a news article reporting that a city heat map found 18% tree canopy in the north side and 7% in the south side; during a 10-day heat wave, the south side averaged 4.2 degrees Fahrenheit hotter at night.
686 words, about 3 min4Priya's Later Start Times Essay: Revising an Argument
Priya is revising an argumentative essay for Mr. Grant's Grade 8 class.
598 words, about 3 min5Peer Editing the Robotics Report: Required Edits versus Optional Changes
Okafor's Grade 8 students are peer-editing a science report paragraph. The paragraph reads: 'Last spring, the robotics team built a rover, it could collect soil samples.
630 words, about 3 min