| Comprehension of Informational Text: Students will read, comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate informational text. |
| Comprehension of Informational Text
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Develop and apply comprehension skills by reading a variety of self-selected and assigned print and non-print informational texts, including electronic media |
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Read, use, and identify the characteristics of nonfiction materials such as textbooks, appropriate reference materials, research and historical documents, personal narratives, diaries, and journals, biographies, newspapers, letters, articles, web sites and other online materials, other appropriate content-specific texts to gain information and content knowledge
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Read, use, and identify the characteristics of functional documents such as sets of directions, science investigations, atlases, posters, flyers, forms, instructional manuals, menus, pamphlets, rules, invitations, recipes, advertisements, other functional documents
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Identify and use text features to facilitate understanding of informational texts |
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Use print features such as large bold print, font size/type, italics, colored print, quotation marks, underlining, and other appropriate content-specific texts
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Use graphic aids such as illustrations and pictures, photographs, drawings, sketches, cartoons, maps (key, scale, legend, graphs, charts/tables, and diagrams, other graphic aids encountered in informational texts
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Use informational aids such as introductions and overviews, materials lists, timelines, captions, glossed words, labels, numbered steps, bulleted lists, footnoted words, pronunciation key, transition words, end notes, works cited, other informational aids encountered in informational texts
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Use organizational aids such as titles, chapter titles, headings, subheadings, tables of contents, numbered steps, glossaries, indices, transition words, other organizational aids encountered in organizational texts
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Use online features such as URLs, hypertext links, sidebars, drop down menus, home pages, site maps, other features characteristic of online texts
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Identify and explain the contributions of text features to support the main idea of the text
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Develop and apply knowledge of organizational structure of informational text to facilitate understanding |
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Identify and analyze the organizational patterns of texts such as sequential and/or chronological order, cause/effect, problem/solution, similarities/differences, description, main idea and supporting details, transition or signal words and phrases that indicate the organizational pattern
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Explain how the organizational pattern clarifies and reinforces meaning and supports the author's/text's purpose
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Determine and analyze important ideas and messages in informational texts |
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Identify and explain the author's/text's purpose and intended audience
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Identify and explain the author's opinion
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State and support main ideas and messages
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Summarize or paraphrase
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Identify and explain information not related to the main idea
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Explain relationships between and among ideas such as comparison/contrast, cause/effect, sequence/chronology
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Synthesize ideas from text
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Distinguish between a fact and an opinion
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Explain how someone might use the text
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Connect the text to prior knowledge or experience
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Analyze purposeful use of language |
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Analyze specific words or phrases that contribute to the meaning of a text
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Analyze specific language choices that create tone
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Analyze the effect of repetition of words and phrases on meaning
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Read critically to evaluate informational text |
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Explain whether the text fulfills the reading purpose
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Analyze changes or additions to the structure and text features that would make the text easier to understand
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Analyze the text and its information for reliability
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Determine and explain whether or not the author's argument or position is presented fairly
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Identify and explain information not included in the text
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Identify and explain language and other techniques intended to persuade the reader
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| 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, 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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