| Comprehension of Literary Text: Students will read, comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate literary text. |
| Comprehension of Literary Text
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Analyze 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, titles of chapters, subtitles, subheadings 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 information 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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Analyze elements of narrative texts to facilitate understanding and interpretation |
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Identify and distinguish among types of narrative texts such as short stories, folklore, legends, myths, realistic fiction, science fiction, historical fiction, biographies, autobiographies, personal narratives, plays, and poetry
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Identify and explain the events of the plot
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Identify and describe the setting and the mood and explain how the setting affects the characters and the mood
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Analyze characterization
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Identify and explain relationships between and among characters, setting, and events
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Identify and explain how the actions of the character(s) affect the plot
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Identify and describe the narrator
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Analyze elements of poetry to facilitate understanding and interpretation |
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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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Analyze 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 similar themes across multiple texts
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Paraphrase
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Summarize
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Identify and explain personal connections to the text
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Explain the implications of the text for the reader and/or society
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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 phrases that create tone
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Identify and explain figurative language that contributes to meaning
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Identify and explain language that appeals to the senses and feelings
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Identify and explain how repetition and exaggeration contribute to meaning
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Read critically to evaluate literary texts |
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Determine and explain the plausibility of the characters' actions and the plot
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Identify and explain questions left unanswered by the text
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