Skill plan for the Pennsylvania Keystone Exams - Literature
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Fiction
L.F.1 - Reading for Meaning - Fiction
L.F.1.1: Use appropriate strategies to analyze an author's purpose and how it is achieved in literature.
L.F.1.1: Use appropriate strategies to analyze an author's purpose and how it is achieved in literature.
L.F.1.1.1: Identify and/or analyze the author's intended purpose of a text.
L.F.1.1.1: Identify and/or analyze the author's intended purpose of a text.
L.F.1.1.2: Explain, describe, and/or analyze examples of a text that support the author's intended purpose.
L.F.1.1.2: Explain, describe, and/or analyze examples of a text that support the author's intended purpose.
L.F.1.1.3: Analyze, interpret, and evaluate how authors use techniques and elements of fiction to effectively communicate an idea or concept.
L.F.1.1.3: Analyze, interpret, and evaluate how authors use techniques and elements of fiction to effectively communicate an idea or concept.
L.F.1.2: Use appropriate strategies to determine and clarify meaning of vocabulary in literature.
L.F.1.2: Use appropriate strategies to determine and clarify meaning of vocabulary in literature.
L.F.1.2.1: Identify and/or apply a synonym or antonym of a word used in a text.
L.F.1.2.1: Identify and/or apply a synonym or antonym of a word used in a text.
L.F.1.2.2: Identify how the meaning of a word is changed when an affix is added; identify the meaning of a word with an affix from a text.
Prefixes
Suffixes
Greek and Latin roots
L.F.1.2.2: Identify how the meaning of a word is changed when an affix is added; identify the meaning of a word with an affix from a text.
Prefixes
Suffixes
Greek and Latin roots
L.F.1.2.3: Use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar, multiple-meaning, or ambiguous words.
Vocabulary in context
Foreign words and expressions
Multiple-meaning words
L.F.1.2.3: Use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar, multiple-meaning, or ambiguous words.
Vocabulary in context
Foreign words and expressions
Multiple-meaning words
L.F.1.2.4: Draw conclusions about connotations of words.
L.F.1.2.4: Draw conclusions about connotations of words.
L.F.1.3: Use appropriate strategies to comprehend literature during the reading process.
L.F.1.3: Use appropriate strategies to comprehend literature during the reading process.
L.F.1.3.1: Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from a text.

L.F.1.3.2: Summarize the key details and events of a fictional text, in part or as a whole.
L.F.1.3.1: Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from a text.

L.F.1.3.2: Summarize the key details and events of a fictional text, in part or as a whole.
L.F.2 - Analyzing and Interpreting Literature-Fiction
L.F.2.1: Use appropriate strategies to make and support interpretations of literature.
L.F.2.1: Use appropriate strategies to make and support interpretations of literature.
L.F.2.1.1: Make inferences and/or draw conclusions based on analysis of a text.

L.F.2.1.2: Cite evidence from a text to support generalizations.
L.F.2.1.1: Make inferences and/or draw conclusions based on analysis of a text.

L.F.2.1.2: Cite evidence from a text to support generalizations.
L.F.2.2: Use appropriate strategies to compare, analyze, and evaluate literary forms.
L.F.2.2: Use appropriate strategies to compare, analyze, and evaluate literary forms.
L.F.2.2.1: Analyze how literary form relates to and/or influences meaning of a text.
L.F.2.2.1: Analyze how literary form relates to and/or influences meaning of a text.
L.F.2.2.2: Compare and evaluate the characteristics that distinguish fiction from literary nonfiction.
L.F.2.2.2: Compare and evaluate the characteristics that distinguish fiction from literary nonfiction.
L.F.2.2.3: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate connections between texts.
L.F.2.2.3: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate connections between texts.
L.F.2.2.4: Compare and evaluate the characteristics that distinguish narrative, poetry, and drama.
L.F.2.2.4: Compare and evaluate the characteristics that distinguish narrative, poetry, and drama.
L.F.2.3: Use appropriate strategies to compare, analyze, and evaluate literary elements.
L.F.2.3: Use appropriate strategies to compare, analyze, and evaluate literary elements.
L.f.2.3.1-3: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character, setting, and plot in a variety of fiction.
L.f.2.3.1-3: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character, setting, and plot in a variety of fiction.
L.F.2.3.4: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of fiction.
L.F.2.3.4: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of fiction.
L.F.2.3.5: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate tone, style, and/or mood in a variety of fiction.
L.F.2.3.5: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate tone, style, and/or mood in a variety of fiction.
L.F.2.3.6: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate point of view in a variety of fiction.
L.F.2.3.6: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate point of view in a variety of fiction.
L.F.2.4: Use appropriate strategies to interpret and analyze the universal significance of literary fiction.
L.F.2.4: Use appropriate strategies to interpret and analyze the universal significance of literary fiction.
L.F.2.4.1: Interpret and analyze works from a variety of genres for literary, historical, and/or cultural significance.
L.F.2.4.1: Interpret and analyze works from a variety of genres for literary, historical, and/or cultural significance.
L.F.2.5: Use appropriate strategies to identify and analyze literary devices and patterns in literary fiction.
L.F.2.5: Use appropriate strategies to identify and analyze literary devices and patterns in literary fiction.
L.F.2.5.1: Identify, explain, interpret, describe, and/or analyze the effects of personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, satire, foreshadowing, flashback, imagery, allegory, symbolism, dialect, allusion, and irony in a text.
Personification
Allusion
Figurative language
L.F.2.5.1: Identify, explain, interpret, describe, and/or analyze the effects of personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, satire, foreshadowing, flashback, imagery, allegory, symbolism, dialect, allusion, and irony in a text.
Personification
Allusion
Figurative language
L.F.2.5.2: Identify, explain, and analyze the structure of poems and sound devices.
L.F.2.5.2: Identify, explain, and analyze the structure of poems and sound devices.
L.F.2.5.3: Identify and analyze how stage directions, monologue, dialogue, soliloquy, and dialect support dramatic script.
L.F.2.5.3: Identify and analyze how stage directions, monologue, dialogue, soliloquy, and dialect support dramatic script.
Nonfiction
L.N.1 - Reading for Meaning - Nonfiction
L.N.1.1: Use appropriate strategies to analyze an author's purpose and how it is achieved in literature.
L.N.1.1: Use appropriate strategies to analyze an author's purpose and how it is achieved in literature.
L.N.1.1.1: Identify and/or analyze the author's intended purpose of a text.

L.N.1.1.2: Explain, describe, and/or analyze examples of a text that support the author's intended purpose.
Purpose
Text development
L.N.1.1.1: Identify and/or analyze the author's intended purpose of a text.

L.N.1.1.2: Explain, describe, and/or analyze examples of a text that support the author's intended purpose.
Purpose
Text development
L.N.1.1.3: Analyze, interpret, and evaluate how authors use techniques and elements of nonfiction to effectively communicate an idea or concept.
Rhetorical strategies
Argument development
L.N.1.1.3: Analyze, interpret, and evaluate how authors use techniques and elements of nonfiction to effectively communicate an idea or concept.
Rhetorical strategies
Argument development
L.N.1.1.4: Explain how an author's use of key words or phrases in text informs and influences the reader.
L.N.1.1.4: Explain how an author's use of key words or phrases in text informs and influences the reader.
L.N.1.2: Use appropriate strategies to determine and clarify meaning of vocabulary in literature.
L.N.1.2: Use appropriate strategies to determine and clarify meaning of vocabulary in literature.
L.N.1.2.1: Identify and/or apply a synonym or antonym of a word used in a text.
L.N.1.2.1: Identify and/or apply a synonym or antonym of a word used in a text.
L.N.1.2.2: Identify how the meaning of a word is changed when an affix is added; identify the meaning of a word with an affix from a text.
Prefixes
Suffixes
Greek and Latin roots
L.N.1.2.2: Identify how the meaning of a word is changed when an affix is added; identify the meaning of a word with an affix from a text.
Prefixes
Suffixes
Greek and Latin roots
L.N.1.2.3: Use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar, multiple-meaning, or ambiguous words.
Vocabulary in context
Foreign words and expressions
Domain-specific vocabulary
Multiple-meaning words
L.N.1.2.3: Use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar, multiple-meaning, or ambiguous words.
Vocabulary in context
Foreign words and expressions
Domain-specific vocabulary
Multiple-meaning words
L.N.1.2.4: Draw conclusions about connotations of words.
L.N.1.2.4: Draw conclusions about connotations of words.
L.N.1.3: Use appropriate strategies to comprehend literature during the reading process.
L.N.1.3: Use appropriate strategies to comprehend literature during the reading process.
L.N.1.3.1: Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from a text.
Main idea
Supporting details
L.N.1.3.1: Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from a text.
Main idea
Supporting details
L.N.1.3.2: Summarize the key details and events of a nonfictional text, in part or as a whole.

L.N.1.3.3: Analyze the interrelationships of ideas and events in a text to determine how one idea or event may interact and influence another.
L.N.1.3.2: Summarize the key details and events of a nonfictional text, in part or as a whole.

L.N.1.3.3: Analyze the interrelationships of ideas and events in a text to determine how one idea or event may interact and influence another.
L.N.2 - Analyzing and Interpreting Literature - Nonfiction
L.N.2.1: Use appropriate strategies to make and support interpretations of literature.
L.N.2.1: Use appropriate strategies to make and support interpretations of literature.
L.N.2.1.1: Make inferences and/or draw conclusions based on analysis of a text.

L.N.2.1.2: Cite evidence from a text to support generalizations
L.N.2.1.1: Make inferences and/or draw conclusions based on analysis of a text.

L.N.2.1.2: Cite evidence from a text to support generalizations
L.N.2.2 & L.N.2.3: Use appropriate strategies to compare, analyze, and evaluate literary forms and elements.
L.N.2.2 & L.N.2.3: Use appropriate strategies to compare, analyze, and evaluate literary forms and elements.
L.N.2.2.1: Analyze how literary form relates to and/or influences meaning of a text.

L.N.2.2.2: Compare and evaluate the characteristics that distinguish fiction from literary nonfiction.

L.N.2.2.3: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate connections between texts.

L.N.2.3.1-3: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character, setting, and plot in a variety of nonfiction.
L.N.2.2.1: Analyze how literary form relates to and/or influences meaning of a text.

L.N.2.2.2: Compare and evaluate the characteristics that distinguish fiction from literary nonfiction.

L.N.2.2.3: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate connections between texts.

L.N.2.3.1-3: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character, setting, and plot in a variety of nonfiction.
L.N.2.3.4: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of nonfiction.
L.N.2.3.4: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of nonfiction.
L.N.2.3.5: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate tone, style, and/or mood in a variety of nonfiction:
L.N.2.3.5: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate tone, style, and/or mood in a variety of nonfiction:
L.N.2.3.6: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate point of view in a variety of nonfiction.
L.N.2.3.6: Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate point of view in a variety of nonfiction.
L.N.2.4: Use appropriate strategies to identify and analyze text organization and structure in literary nonfiction.
L.N.2.4: Use appropriate strategies to identify and analyze text organization and structure in literary nonfiction.
L.N.2.4.1: Identify, analyze, and evaluate the structure and format of complex informational texts.
Text structure
Text development
Argument development
L.N.2.4.1: Identify, analyze, and evaluate the structure and format of complex informational texts.
Text structure
Text development
Argument development
L.N.2.4.2: Identify, explain, compare, interpret, describe, and/or analyze the sequence of steps in a list of directions.
L.N.2.4.2: Identify, explain, compare, interpret, describe, and/or analyze the sequence of steps in a list of directions.
L.N.2.4.3: Explain, interpret, and/or analyze the effect of text organization, including headings, graphics, and charts.

L.N.2.4.5: Analyze and evaluate how graphics and charts clarify, simplify, and organize complex informational texts.
L.N.2.4.3: Explain, interpret, and/or analyze the effect of text organization, including headings, graphics, and charts.

L.N.2.4.5: Analyze and evaluate how graphics and charts clarify, simplify, and organize complex informational texts.
L.N.2.4.4: Make connections between a text and the content of graphics and charts.
L.N.2.4.4: Make connections between a text and the content of graphics and charts.
L.N.2.5: Use appropriate strategies to identify and analyze essential and nonessential information in literary nonfiction.
L.N.2.5: Use appropriate strategies to identify and analyze essential and nonessential information in literary nonfiction.
L.N.2.5.1: Differentiate between fact and opinion.
L.N.2.5.1: Differentiate between fact and opinion.
L.N.2.5.2: Explain, interpret, describe, and/or analyze the use of facts and opinions in a text.

L.N.2.5.3: Distinguish essential from nonessential information.
L.N.2.5.2: Explain, interpret, describe, and/or analyze the use of facts and opinions in a text.

L.N.2.5.3: Distinguish essential from nonessential information.
L.N.2.5.4: Identify, explain, and/or interpret bias and propaganda techniques in nonfictional text.

L.N.2.5.5: Explain, describe, and/or analyze the effectiveness of bias (explicit and implicit) and propaganda techniques in nonfictional text.
Persuasive strategies
Rhetorical strategies
L.N.2.5.4: Identify, explain, and/or interpret bias and propaganda techniques in nonfictional text.

L.N.2.5.5: Explain, describe, and/or analyze the effectiveness of bias (explicit and implicit) and propaganda techniques in nonfictional text.
Persuasive strategies
Rhetorical strategies
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