Middle School English Language Arts Instructional Guide

Reading 10

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5 a. ​ Analyze how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a literary text. (RL) b. ​ Compare the overall structure in two or more texts using terms such as sequence, comparison, cause/e ff ect, and problem/solution. (RI) 6 a. ​ Analyze how a sentence, paragraph , stanza, chapter, scene , or section fits into the overall structure and how it contributes to the development of theme, main idea, settings, or plot. (RL) b. ​ Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and how it contributes to the development of the main idea. (RI) 7-8 Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, and how it contributes to the text meaning. (RL & RI) 9-10 Analyze and evaluate the e ff ectiveness of the structures an author uses in an exposition, argument, or narrative, including whether the structure makes points or events clear, e ff ective, convincing, or engaging. (RL & RI) 11-12 Analyze and evaluate the e ff ectiveness of structures across multiple texts about similar topics/themes, including whether the structures make points or events clear, e ff ective, convincing, or engaging. (RL & RI) 5 a. ​ Explain how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described. (RL) b. ​ Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and di ff erences in the point of view they represent. (RI) 6 a. ​ Explain how an author's perspective develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in multiple texts. (RL) b. ​ Analyze how the author distinguishes a perspective and/or position from that of others. (RI) 7-8 a. ​ Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the point s of view of di ff erent characters or narrator s in a text and how this creates a variety of e ff ects (e.g., humor, sadness, suspense). (RL) b. ​ Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes their position from that of others and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints. (RI) 9-10 Analyze how an author’s geographic location, identity or background, culture, and time period a ff ect the perspective, point of view, purpose, and implicit/explicit messages of a text. (RL & RI) 11-12 Analyze how an author’s geographic location, identity or background, culture, and time period a ff ect the perspective, point of view, purpose, and implicit/explicit messages of a collective body of work . (RL & RI) Reading 11

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