| Comprehension of Literary Text: Students will read, comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate literary text. |
| Comprehension of Literary Text
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Use text features to facilitate understanding of literary texts |
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Identify and explain how organizational aids such as the title of the book, story, poem, or play contribute to meaning
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Identify and explain how graphic aids such as pictures and illustrations, punctuation, print features contribute to meaning
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Identify and explain how informational aids such as introductions and overviews, materials lists, timelines, captions, glossed words, labels, numbered steps, bulleted lists, footnoted words, pronunciation keys, transition words, end notes, works cited, other informatin aids encountered in informational texts contribute to meaning
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Identify and explain how print features such as large bold print, font size/type, italics, colored print, quotation marks, underlining, other print features encountered in informational texts contribute to meaning
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Use elements of narrative texts to facilitate understanding |
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Identify and distinguish among types of narrative texts such as characteristics of the general categories of fiction versus nonfiction, realistic fiction, tall tales, legends, fables, fairy tales, biographies
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Identify and explain the elements of a story
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Identify and describe the setting and the mood
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Identify and analyze the characters
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Identify and explain relationships between and among characters, setting, and events
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Identify and describe the narrator
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Use elements of poetry to facilitate understanding |
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Identify and explain the meaning of words, lines, and stanzas
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Identify and explain sound elements of poetry
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Identify and explain other poetic elements such as setting, mood, tone, etc., that contribute to meaning
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Use elements of drama to facilitate understanding |
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Identify and explain the action of a scene
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Identify and explain stage directions and dialogue that help to create character
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Determine important ideas and messages in literary texts |
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Identify and explain main ideas and universal themes
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Identify and explain a similar idea or theme in more than one text
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Summarize
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Identify and explain personal connections to the text
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Identify and describe the author's use of language |
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Identify and explain specific words and phrases that contribute to meaning
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Identify and explain words and punctuation that create tone
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Identify and explain figurative language
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Identify and explain language that appeals to the senses and feelings
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Identify and explain repetition and exaggeration
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Read critically to evaluate literary texts |
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Identify and explain the believability of the characters' actions and the story's events
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Identify and explain questions left unanswered by the text
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