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6 Comprehension skills

6 Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.
- A establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts;
  - Identificar el propósito de un texto (4-D.1)
- B generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information;
- C make, correct, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures;
  - Hacer predicciones sobre una historia (4-B.3)
- D create mental images to deepen understanding;
  - Clasificar detalles sensoriales (4-G.1)
- E make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society;
  - Comparar la información de dos textos informativos (4-E.)
  - Comparar y contrastar en textos informativos (4-F.2)
- F make inferences and use evidence to support understanding;
- G evaluate details read to determine key ideas;
- H synthesize information to create new understanding; and
- I monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down.

8-9 Multiple genres

8 Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts–literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts.
- A infer basic themes supported by text evidence;
  - Determinar los temas de mitos, fábulas y cuentos populares (4-B.1)
- B explain the interactions of the characters and the changes they undergo;
- C analyze plot elements, including the rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution; and
- D explain the influence of the setting, including historical and cultural settings, on the plot.
9 Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts–genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
- A demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, legends, myths, and tall tales;
  - Determinar los temas de mitos, fábulas y cuentos populares (4-B.1)
- B explain figurative language such as simile, metaphor, and personification that the poet uses to create images;
- C explain structure in drama such as character tags, acts, scenes, and stage directions;
- D recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including:
  - i the central idea with supporting evidence;
  - ii features such as pronunciation guides and diagrams to support understanding; and
  - iii organizational patterns such as compare and contrast.
- E recognize characteristics and structures of argumentative text by:
  - i identifying the claim;
  - ii explaining how the author has used facts for an argument; and
  - iii identifying the intended audience or reader.
- F recognize characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.

10 Author's purpose and craft

10 Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the author's choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances.
- A explain the author's purpose and message within a text;
- B explain how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
  - Identificar el propósito de un texto (4-D.1)
- C analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
  - Identificar el propósito de un texto (4-D.1)
- D describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile and metaphor, and sound devices such as alliteration and assonance achieves specific purposes;
- E identify and understand the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view;
- F discuss how the author's use of language contributes to voice; and
- G identify and explain the use of anecdote.

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6 Comprehension skills

6 Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.

A establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts;

B generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information;

C make, correct, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures;

D create mental images to deepen understanding;

E make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society;

F make inferences and use evidence to support understanding;

G evaluate details read to determine key ideas;

H synthesize information to create new understanding; and

I monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down.

8-9 Multiple genres

8 Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts–literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts.

A infer basic themes supported by text evidence;

B explain the interactions of the characters and the changes they undergo;

C analyze plot elements, including the rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution; and

D explain the influence of the setting, including historical and cultural settings, on the plot.

9 Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts–genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.

A demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, legends, myths, and tall tales;

B explain figurative language such as simile, metaphor, and personification that the poet uses to create images;

C explain structure in drama such as character tags, acts, scenes, and stage directions;

D recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including:

i the central idea with supporting evidence;

ii features such as pronunciation guides and diagrams to support understanding; and

iii organizational patterns such as compare and contrast.

E recognize characteristics and structures of argumentative text by:

i identifying the claim;

ii explaining how the author has used facts for an argument; and

iii identifying the intended audience or reader.

F recognize characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.

10 Author's purpose and craft

A explain the author's purpose and message within a text;

B explain how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;

C analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;

D describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile and metaphor, and sound devices such as alliteration and assonance achieves specific purposes;

E identify and understand the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view;

F discuss how the author's use of language contributes to voice; and

G identify and explain the use of anecdote.