| 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 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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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, realistic fiction, science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, essays, biographies, autobiographies, personal narratives, plays, poetry
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Analyze the events of the plot
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Analyze details that provide information about the setting, the mood created by the setting, and ways in which the setting affects characters
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Analyze characterization
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Analyze 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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Analyze internal and/or external conflicts that motivate characters and those that advance the plot
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Identify and explain the author's approach to issues of time in a narrative
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Identify and explain the point of view
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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 how sound elements of poetry contribute to meaning
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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 scenes and acts
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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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Analyze main ideas and universal themes
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Analyze 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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Analyze the author's purposeful use of language |
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Analyze specific words and phrases that contribute to meaning
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Analyze words and phrases that create tone
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Identify and explain figurative language that contributes to meaning
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Analyze how sensory language contributes to meaning
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Analyze 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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Identify and explain the relationship between a literary text and its historical and/or social context
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