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A. Comprehension of Literary Text
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1. Apply comprehension skills by reading and analyzing a variety of self-selected and assigned literary texts including print and non-print
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a. Listen to critically, read, and discuss a variety of literary texts representing diverse cultures, perspectives, ethnicities, and time periods
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b. Listen to critically, read, and discuss a variety of literary forms and genres
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2. Analyze text features to facilitate understanding of literary texts
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a. Analyze text features that contribute to meaning
Assessment limit:
- In the text or a portion of the text
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3. Analyze elements of narrative texts to facilitate understanding and interpretation
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a. Distinguish among types of grade-appropriate narrative such as short stories, folklore, realistic fiction, science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, essays, biographies, autobiographies, personal narratives, plays, and lyric and narrative poetry
Assessment limit:
- Grade-appropriate narrative texts
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b. Analyze the events of the plot
Assessment limit:
- Exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution
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c. Analyze details that provide information about the setting, the mood created by the setting, and ways in which the setting affects characters
Assessment limit:
- Details that create the setting and/or mood in the text or a portion of the text
- Connections among the characters, the setting, and the mood in the text or a portion of the text
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d. Analyze characterization
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- Character's traits based on what character says, does, and thinks and what other characters or the narrator says
- Character's motivations
- Character's personal growth and development
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e. Analyze relationships between and among characters, setting and events
Assessment limit:
- In the text or a portion of the text or across multiple texts
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f. Analyze the actions of characters that serve to advance the plot
Assessment limit:
- In the text or a portion of the text or across multiple texts
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g. Analyze internal and/or external conflicts that motivate characters and those that advance the plot
Assessment limit:
- In the text or a portion of the text
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h. Analyze the author's approach to issues of time in a narrative
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i. Analyze the point of view
Assessment limit:
- Connections between point of view and meaning
- Conclusions about the narrator based on his/her thoughts and/or observations
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j. Analyze the interactions among narrative elements and their contribution to meaning
Assessment limit:
- Connections among narrative elements and meaning
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4. Analyze elements of poetry to facilitate understanding and interpretation
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a. Use structural features to distinguish among types of poetry such as ballad, narrative, lyric
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b. Analyze language and structural features to determine meaning
Assessment limit:
- Literal versus figurative meanin
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c. Analyze sound elements of poetry that contribute to meaning
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d. Identify and explain other poetic elements such as setting, mood, tone, etc., that contribute to meaning
Assessment limit:
- Elements of grade-appropriate lyric and narrative poems that contribute to meaning
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5. Analyze elements of drama to facilitate understanding and interpretation
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a. Use structural features to distinguish among types of plays
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b. Analyze the action of individual scenes and acts and their relationship to the plot
Assessment limit:
- Literal versus interpretive meaning
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c. Analyze how stage directions affect dialogue, characters, and plot
Assessment limit:
- In the text or a portion of the text
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6. Analyze important ideas and messages in literary texts
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a. Analyze main ideas and universal themes
Assessment limit:
- Of the text or a portion of the text
- Experiences, emotions, issues, and ideas in a text that give rise to universal themes
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b. Analyze similar themes across multiple texts
Assessment limit:
- Experiences, emotions, issues, and ideas across texts that give rise to universal themes
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c. Summarize or paraphrase
Assessment limit:
- The text or a portion of the text
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d. Reflect on and explain personal connections to the text
Assessment limit:
- Connections between personal experiences and the theme or main ideas
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e. Explain the implications of the text for the reader and/or society
Assessment limit:
- Ideas and issues of a text that may have implications for the reader
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7. Analyze the author's purposeful use of language
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a. Analyze how specific language choices contribute to meaning
Assessment limit:
- Significant words (e.g., idioms, colloquialisms, etc.) with a specific effect on meaning
- Denotations of above-grade-level words used in context
- Connotations of grade-appropriate words and phrases in context
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b. Analyze language choices that create tone
Assessment limit:
- In the text or a portion of the text
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c. Analyze figurative language that contributes to meaning and/or creates style
Assessment limit:
- In the text or a portion of the text
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d. Analyze imagery that contributes to meaning and/or creates style
Assessment limit:
- Specific words and phrases in the text or a portion of the text
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e. Analyze elements of style and their contribution to meaning
Assessment limit:
- Common elements of style such as repetition, hyperbole and rhetorical questions
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8. Read critically to evaluate literary texts
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a. Analyze the plausibility of the plot and the credibility of the characters
Assessment limit:
- In the text or a portion of the text
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b. Analyze the extent to which the text contains ambiguities, subtleties, or contradictions
Assessment limit:
- Questions and predictions about events, situations, and conflicts that might occur if the text were extended
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c. Analyze the relationship between a literary text and its historical and/or social context
Assessment limit:
- Implications of the historical or social context on a literary text
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d. Analyze the relationship between the structure and the purpose of the text
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