Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences and conclusions based on an author’s explicit assumptions and beliefs about a subject.

Determine the point of view of the text and analyze the impact the point of view has on the meaning of the text.

Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it and manipulate time create an effect.

Analyze how words and phrases shape meaning and tone in texts.

Apply appropriate strategies to analyze, interpret and evaluate how authors use techniques and elements of fiction and non-fiction for rhetorical and aesthetic purposes.

Demonstrate comprehension before reading, during reading, and after reading on grade level texts to support understanding of a variety of literary works from different cultures and literary movements.

Analyze textual evidence to make subtle inferences and draw complex conclusions.

Describe and compare the differing characteristics that distinguish the fiction and non-fiction forms of narrative, poetry, drama, and essay and determine how the form relates to meaning.

Evaluate the impact of diverse cultures and writers on the development and growth of literature.

Examine literature as it reflects traditional and contemporary themes, motifs, universal characters, and genres.

Describe how an author conveys intent and perspective in contemporary and historical writings.

Analyze the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period. meaning.

Interpret and analyze works in various genres of literary and/or cultural significance in American and world history that:

•  Reflect a variety of genres in the respective major periods of literature.
•  Represent important authors in each historical period.
•  Reveal contrasts in major themes, styles, and trends in the respective historical periods.
•  Examine the important philosophical, religious, social, political, or ethical ideas of the time.

Analyze the effectiveness of literary elements used by authors in various genres.

• Analyze how authors develop complex characters as well as their roles and functions in a variety of texts.
• Determine the effectiveness of setting as related to character, plot, and other key literary elements.
• Determine the effectiveness of the author’s use of point of view as related to content and specific types of genre.
• Analyze how the author structures plot to advance the action.
• Identify major themes in literature, comparing and contrasting how they are developed across genres.
• Explain how voice and choice of speaker (narrator) affect the mood, tone, and meaning of text.
• Describe how an author, through the use of diction, syntax, figurative language, sentence variety, etc., achieves style.

Interpret and analyze the author’s skill in employing literary devices in various genres.

• Identify, explain, and analyze the effect of literary devices (e.g., figurative language, imagery, allegory, and symbolism).
• Identify, explain and analyze the effects of sound, form, and structure of poems.
• Identify and analyze how dramatic conventions (e.g., stage directions, monologue, dialogue, soliloquy, dialect, chorus) support, interpret, and enhance dramatic script.

Apply appropriate strategies to analyze, interpret, and evaluate how an author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.

Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text.

Analyze how words and phrases shape meaning and tone in texts.

Analyze how an author draws on and transforms themes, topics, character types, and/or other text elements from source material in a specific work.

Evaluate how an author’s point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.

Analyzing and interpreting literature—Fiction

Reading for meaning—Nonfiction

Reading for meaning—Fiction

Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from a text.

Note: Items may target specific paragraphs.

Make inferences and/or draw conclusions based on analysis of a text.

Cite evidence from a text to support generalizations

Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of fiction:

• the relationship between the theme and other components of the text
• comparing and contrasting how major themes are developed across genres
• the reflection of traditional and contemporary issues, themes, motifs, universal characters, and genres
• the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period

Interpret and analyze works from a variety of genres for literary, historical, and/or cultural significance.

Identify and/or analyze the author’s intended purpose of a text.

Explain, describe, and/or analyze examples of a text that support the author’s intended purpose.

Identify and/or analyze the author’s intended purpose of a text.

Explain, describe, and/or analyze examples of a text that support the author’s intended purpose.

Analyze, interpret, and evaluate how authors use techniques and elements of fiction to effectively communicate an idea or concept.