Action steps
1. Analyze how texts reflect genre-specific traits ( autobiography, realistic fiction, speculative fiction.
2. Analyze the relationship between the historical events in the autobiography and the author’s personal story.
3. Analyze the devices the author uses to develop the autobiography.
4. Analyze internal and/or external conflicts that motivate characters to grow.
5. Explain the relationship between a biography, autobiography, or memoir and its historical and/or social context.
6. Analyze words and phrases that create tone.
7. Respond effectively to critical and analytical text-dependent questions
8. Draw conclusions or make generalizations about the text.
9. Analyze relationships between and among characters, settings, and events.
10. Analyze the author’s purposeful use of language.
11. Analyze internal and/or external conflicts that motivate characters and those that advance the plot.
12. Analyze the events of the plot in various genres: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.
13. Analyze details that provide information about the setting, the mood created by the setting, and ways in which the setting affects characters.
14. Determine details that create the setting and/or mood in the text or a portion of the text.
15. Connections among the characters, the setting, and the mood in the text or a portion of the text.
16. Select multiple examples of evidence that confirms the important ideas and messages of a literary text.
17. Identify multiple pieces of evidence to suggest logically what might be true about characters, setting, plot, etc.
Action steps
1. Analyze main ideas and universal themes, including experiences, emotions, issues and ideas that give rise to the theme or lesson learned from the text.
2. Identify and explain personal connections to the text such as connections between personal experiences and the theme or main ideas.
3. Employ effective note-taking strategies when identifying main ideas and supporting details in order to produce an objective summary of the text or portions of the text.
4. Examine significant details of character and plot development, repeated words, ideas, and/or symbols through a text.
Action steps
1. Understand elements of fiction.
2. Understand elements of drama.
3. Analyze how the actions of the character(s) affect the plot.
4. Analyze internal and/or external conflicts that motivate characters and those that advance the plot.
5. Analyze the events of the plot: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.
6. Make connections between or among elements of plot or drama structure and characters to determine their effect upon each other.
Action steps
1. Analyze how the actions of the character(s) affect the plot.
2. Use context to determine the meaning of words.
3. Examine the author’s purpose in using sound elements of words.
4. Analyze specific words and phrases that contribute to meaning.
5. Analyze words and phrases that create tone.
6. Demonstrate how figurative language contributes to meaning.
7. Recognize how the author uses poetic devices to evoke response.
8. Analyze how sensory language contributes to meaning.
9. Analyze how repetition and exaggeration contribute to meaning.
10. Analyze the events of the plot: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.
Action steps
1. Examine how parts of dramatic structure or poetic forms connect to other parts of the text to clarify meaning.
2. Analyze how structural elements of poetry (stanza, sonnets, repetition, rhyme scheme) provide meaning.
3. Examine how parts of dramatic structure help clarify or fulfill the author’s purpose.
Action steps
1. Determine how characters response within a text (verbal and nonverbal) reflect the reader’s understanding of the character.
2. Analyze how actions or dialogue of characters in a text reflect conflicting ideas or views about a particular situation or person.
Action steps
1. Demonstrate knowledge of elements of fiction.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of elements of drama.
3. Determine areas of difference and provide supporting details.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of elements of poetry.
5. Employ effective note-taking strategies when viewing or listening to text.
6. Demonstrate knowledge of techniques available to produce an audio, filmed, or staged version of a literary text.
7. Explain the effects produced through audio, filmed, or staged versions of a literary text.
8. Use details presented in diverse media and formats.
Action steps
1. Distinguish between historical fiction and an historical account.
2. Apply knowledge of the time period and the author’s perspective.
3. Apply knowledge of the time period and the author’s purpose.
Action steps
1. Analyze words and phrases that create tone.
2. Respond effectively to critical and analytical text-dependent questions.
3. Draw conclusions or make generalizations about the text.
4. Analyze the author’s purposeful use of language.
Action steps
1. Synthesize main ideas to determine a central idea.
2. Analyze main ideas and universal themes, including experiences, emotions, issues, ideas in a text, or lesson learned from the text.
3. Determine the relevancy of the theme to society.
4. Determine how transitional words and phrases are used to convey sequential detail.
5. Demonstrate understanding of elements of objectivity when conveying meaning.
6. Employ effective note-taking strategies when identifying main ideas and supporting details in order to produce an objective summary of the text or portions of the text.
Action steps
1. Determine the purpose of an individual, event, or idea within an informational text.
2. Determine the relationships between or among individuals, events or ideas within a text.
3. Draw conclusions about the relationships among individuals, events, or ideas within a text.
4. Examine the effect created by the relationships between or among individuals, events or ideas within a text.
5. Apply knowledge of organizational patterns by identification of strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast and cause/effect.
Action steps
1. Use context to determine the meaning of words.
2. Analyze specific words and phrases that contribute to meaning.
3. Analyze words and phrases that create tone.
4. Demonstrate how figurative language contributes to meaning.
5. Recognize how the author uses poetic devices to evoke response.
6. Analyze how sensory language contributes to meaning.
7. Analyze how repetition and exaggeration contribute to meaning.
Action steps
1. Analyze the author’s use of organizational aids contributes to meaning.
2. Determine the general organizational pattern of a grade-appropriate informational text (e.g., transition words and phrases indicating chronological order, cause/effect, problem solution, etc.).
3. Examine how the identified important sections of the text add to the development of ideas in the text.
Action steps
1. Analyze how the author develops his point of view.
2. Analyze evidence used to support the author’s point of view.
3. Evaluate the author’s credibility.
4. Determine how the author uses counterarguments to elevate/validate his/her assertion.
Action steps
1. Employ effective note-taking strategies when viewing or listening to text.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of various media capabilities when listening to or viewing dramatization of a literary text.
3. Draw conclusions about the positive and negative aspects of a text, audio, or visual version of the same text.
Action steps
1. Demonstrate knowledge of the organizational pattern of an argument.
2. Assess the value of the argument based upon supported claims.
3. Assess the credibility and accuracy of evidence.
Action steps
1. Analyze text for how the author develops main ideas and supporting details.
2. Explain how the focus on different information alters a reader’s understanding of a topic.
3. Explain how conclusions drawn about information alters a reader’s understanding of a topic.
4. Use knowledge of point of view and bias.
Action steps
1. Develop claims that represents a specific stand.
2. Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
3. Use clear reasons and relevant evidence from the text to support claims.
4. Use clear reasons and relevant evidence when using outside resources to develop and support claim/s.
5. Evaluate the credibility of outside resources when using outside resources.
6. Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
7. Establish and maintain a formal style.
8. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the argument presented.
Action steps
1. Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, images, music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify information.
2. Use keyboard and mouse effectively and efficiently.
3. Use technology responsibly.
4. Use technology to enhance learning and collaboration.
5. Use technology for communication.
6. Use technology to locate, evaluate, and organize information.
7. Use technology to solve problems by strategizing, analyzing and communicating data, and examining solutions.
Action steps
1. Follow an inquiry process.
2. Define a problem, formulate questions, and refine a problem and/or question.
3. Locate and evaluate resources.
4. Find data and/or information within a variety of print or digital sources.
5. Use a variety of formats to prepare the findings/conclusions for sharing.
6. Share findings and/or conclusions through a variety of print and multimedia venues.
Action steps
1. Locate and evaluate resources.
2. Develop search terms vocabulary and searching strategies.
3. Take purposeful notes by direct quoting, paraphrasing, or drawing conclusions.
4. Evaluate and analyze the quality, accuracy, and sufficiency of notes.
5. Use appropriate bibliographic information.
Action steps
1. Probe and reflect on ideas , topics , or issues within the text, drawing explicitly from evidence in the text.
2. Demonstrate rules for collegial discussions, set specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
3. Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
4. Review the key ideas expressed and demonstrate understanding of multiple perspectives through reflection and paraphrasing.
Action steps
1. Apply an understanding of the formation and the function of phrases and clauses i.e.,verb, prepositional, and appositive phrases independent versus dependent (noun, adjective, and adverb) clauses.
2. Describe the use of a phrase or clause in a specific sentence.
3. Analyze professional, peer, and their own writing for their use of phrases and clauses.
4. Apply an understanding of how clauses create relationships between and among ideas in a sentence.
5. Apply an understanding of how sentence types create relationships between and among ideas.
6. Use clauses to clarify the relationships among claims, reason, and evidence.
7. Use a variety of clauses to convey sequence.
8. Analyze the use of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences in professional, peer, and their own writing.
9. Apply an understanding of the relationship between the placement of phrases and clauses and clarity of meaning.
10. Strengthen writing by editing for correct punctuation to separate coordinate adjectives.
Action steps
1. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
2. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g. audience, auditory, audible).
3. Consult general and specialized reference material, both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
4. Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase by checking the meaning in context or in a dictionary.
Action steps
1. Interpret figures of speech (e.g., personification) in context.
2. Use the relationship between particular words such as cause/effect, part/whole, to better understand each of the words.
3. Distinguish among the connotations of words with similar denotations.
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