BHS American Sign Language Guide

consequences of actions in complex texts.

* Additional ideas for instructional practices can be found in the resource Ideas for Progress in College and Career Readiness on the ACT website. • Help students build academic and Tier II vocabulary through an understanding of how to use context to discern meaning. • Help students build Tier III vocabulary through word study and reading several texts on the same topic or idea. ● Have students predict how changes to the wording of a text might convey a different tone or attitude. • Have students explain how some sentence constructions (e.g., using parallel structures, many or no conjunctions, purposeful repetition) affect the meaning of the text. • Have students analyze the relationship between an author’s or narrator’s intended message and the rhetorical devices used to convey that message. • Have students search for subtle evidence in a text that conveys

Craft and Structure Questions in this category test students’ ability to determine the meaning of words and phrases; analyze author’s word choice; analyze text structure; and analyze the author’s purpose and perspective.

WME 701 Analyze how the choice of a specific word or phrase shapes meaning or tone in passages when the effect is subtle or complex WME 702 Interpret words and phrases as they are used in complex passages, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings TST 601 Analyze how one or more sentences in complex passages relate to the whole passage TST 602 Infer the function of paragraphs in more challenging passages TST 603 Analyze the overall structure of complex passages PPV 701 Identify or infer a purpose in complex passages and how that purpose shapes content and style

9-10.RL/I.4, 11-12.RL/I.4 Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. 9-10.RI.5 Analyze how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text. 9-10.RL.6 Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature. 11-12.RL.5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning the structure of specific parts of a text contribute to its overall structure, meaning, and aesthetic impact. 11-12.RI.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly

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