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Standard - 1.3.L.C
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.
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Assessment Anchor - L.F.1
Reading for meaning—Fiction
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Anchor Descriptor - L.F.1.1 Use appropriate strategies to analyze an author’s purpose and how it is achieved in literature
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Eligible Content - L.F.1.1.1 Identify and/or analyze the author’s intended purpose of a text.
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Eligible Content - L.F.1.1.2 Explain, describe, and/or analyze examples of a text that support the author’s intended purpose.
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Eligible Content - L.F.1.1.3 Analyze, interpret, and evaluate how authors use techniques and elements of fiction to effectively communicate an idea or concept.
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Anchor Descriptor - L.F.1.2 Use appropriate strategies to determine and clarify meaning of vocabulary in literature.
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Eligible Content - L.F.1.2.1 Identify and/or apply a synonym or antonym of a word used in a text.
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Eligible Content - 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.
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Eligible Content - L.F.1.2.3 Use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar, multiple- meaning, or ambiguous words.
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Eligible Content - L.F.1.2.4 Draw conclusions about connotations of words
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Anchor Descriptor - L.F.1.3 Use appropriate strategies to comprehend literature during the reading process.
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Eligible Content - L.F.1.3.1
Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from a text.
Note: Items may target specific paragraphs.
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Eligible Content - L.F.1.3.2 Summarize the key details and events of a fictional text, in part or as a whole.
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Assessment Anchor - L.F.2
Analyzing and interpreting literature—Fiction
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Anchor Descriptor - L.F.2.1 Use appropriate strategies to make and support interpretations of literature.
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Eligible Content - L.F.2.1.1 Make inferences and/or draw conclusions based on analysis of a text.
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Eligible Content - L.F.2.1.2 Cite evidence from a text to support generalizations
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Anchor Descriptor - L.F.2.2 Use appropriate strategies to compare, analyze, and evaluate literary forms.
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Eligible Content - L.F.2.2.1 Analyze how literary form relates to and/or influences meaning of a text.
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Eligible Content - L.F.2.2.2 Compare and evaluate the characteristics that distinguish fiction from literary nonfiction.
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Eligible Content - L.F.2.2.3 Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate connections between texts.
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Eligible Content - L.F.2.2.4 Compare and evaluate the characteristics that distinguish narrative, poetry, and drama.
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Anchor Descriptor - L.F.2.3 Use appropriate strategies to compare, analyze, and evaluate literary elements.
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Eligible Content - L.F.2.3.1
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character in a variety of fiction:
Note: Character may also be called narrator or speaker.
- the actions, motives, dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships among characters within fictional text
- the relationship between characters and other components of a text
- the development by authors of complex characters and their roles and functions within a text
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Eligible Content - L.F.2.3.2
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate setting in a variety of fiction:
- the relationship between setting and other components of the text (character, plot, and other key literary elements)
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Eligible Content - L.F.2.3.3
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate plot in a variety of fiction:
Note: Plot may also be called action.
- elements of the plot (e.g. exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and/or resolution)
- the relationship between elements of the plot and other components of the text
- how the author structures plot to advance the action
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Eligible Content - L.F.2.3.4
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
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Eligible Content - L.F.2.3.5
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate voice, tone, style, and mood in a variety of fiction:
- the relationship between the tone, style, and/or mood and other components of the text
- how voice and choice of speaker (narrator) affect the mood, tone, and/or meaning of the text
- how diction, syntax, figurative language, sentence variety, etc., determine the author’s style
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Eligible Content - L.F.2.3.6
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate point of view in a variety of fiction:
- the point of view of the narrator as first person or third person point of view
- the impact of point of view on the meaning of the text as a whole
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Anchor Descriptor - L.F.2.4 Use appropriate strategies to interpret and analyze the universal significance of literary fiction.
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Eligible Content - L.F.2.4.1 Interpret and analyze works from a variety of genres for literary, historical, and/or cultural significance.
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Anchor Descriptor - L.F.2.5
Use appropriate strategies to identify and analyze literary devices and patterns in literary fiction.
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Eligible Content - 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, and irony in a text.
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Eligible Content - L.F.2.5.2
Identify, explain, and analyze the structure of poems and sound devices.
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Eligible Content - L.F.2.5.3 Identify and analyze how stage directions, monologue, dialogue, soliloquy, and dialect support dramatic script.
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Assessment Anchor - L.N.1
Reading for meaning—Nonfiction
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Anchor Descriptor - L.N.1.1 Use appropriate strategies to analyze an author’s purpose and how it is achieved in literature.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.1.1 Identify and/or analyze the author’s intended purpose of a text.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.1.2 Explain, describe, and/or analyze examples of a text that support the author’s intended purpose.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.1.3 Analyze, interpret, and evaluate how authors use techniques and elements of nonfiction to effectively communicate an idea or concept.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.1.4 Explain how an author's use of key words or phrases in text informs and influences the reader.
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Anchor Descriptor - L.N.1.2 Use appropriate strategies to determine and clarify meaning of vocabulary in literature.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.2.1 Identify and/or apply a synonym or antonym of a word used in a text.
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Eligible Content - 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.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.2.3 Use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar, multiple- meaning, or ambiguous words.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.2.4 Draw conclusions about connotations of words.
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Anchor Descriptor - L.N.1.3 Use appropriate strategies to comprehend literature during the reading process.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.3.1
Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from a text.
Note: Items may target specific paragraphs.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.3.2 Summarize the key details and events of a nonfictional text, in part or as a whole.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.3.3 Analyze the interrelationships of ideas and events in text to determine how one idea or event may interact and influence another.
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Assessment Anchor - L.N.2
Analyzing and interpreting literature—Nonfiction
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Anchor Descriptor - L.N.2.1 Use appropriate strategies to make and support interpretations of literature.
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.1.1 Make inferences and/or draw conclusions based on analysis of a text.
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.1.2 Cite evidence from a text to support generalizations.
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Anchor Descriptor - L.N.2.2 Use appropriate strategies to compare, analyze, and evaluate the literary forms.
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.2.1 Analyze how literary form relates to and/or influences the meaning of a text.
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.2.2 Compare and evaluate the characteristics that distinguish fiction from literary nonfiction
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.2.3 Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate connections between texts.
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Anchor Descriptor - L.N.2.3 Use appropriate strategies to compare, analyze, and evaluate literary elements.
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.3.1
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Character may also be called narrator, speaker, or subject of a biography.
- the actions, motives, dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships among characters within nonfictional text
- the relationship between characters and other components of a text
- the development by authors of complex characters and their roles and functions within a text
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.3.2
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate setting in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between setting and other components of the text (character, plot, and other key literary elements)
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.3.3
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate plot in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Plot may also be called action.
- elements of the plot (e.g. exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and/or resolution)
- the relationship between elements of the plot and other components of the text
- how the author structures plot to advance the action
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.3.4
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of nonfiction:
- 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
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.3.5
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate voice, tone, style, and mood in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the tone, style, and/or mood and other components of the text
- how voice and choice of speaker (narrator) affect the mood, tone, and/or meaning of the text
- how diction, syntax, figurative language, sentence variety, etc., determine the author’s style
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.3.6
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate point of view in a variety of nonfiction:
- the point of view of the narrator as first person or third person point of view
- the impact of point of view on the meaning of the text as a whole
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Anchor Descriptor - L.N.2.4 Use appropriate strategies to identify and analyze text organization and structure in literary nonfiction.
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.4.1 Identify, analyze and evaluate the structure and format of complex informational texts.
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.4.2 Identify, explain, compare, interpret, describe, and/or analyze the sequence of steps in a list of directions.
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.4.3 Explain, interpret, and/or analyze the effect of text organization, including headings, graphics, and charts.
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.4.4 Make connections between the text and the content of graphics and charts.
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.4.5 Analyze and evaluate how graphics and charts clarify, simplify, and organize complex informational texts.
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Anchor Descriptor - L.N.2.5 Use appropriate strategies to identify and analyze essential and nonessential information in literary nonfiction.
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.5.1 Differentiate between fact and opinion.
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.5.2 Explain, interpret, describe, and/or analyze the use of facts and opinions in the text.
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.5.3 Distinguish essential from nonessential information.
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.5.4 Identify, explain, and/or interpret bias and propaganda techniques in nonfictional text.
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.5.5 Explain, describe, and/or analyze the effectiveness of bias (explicit and implicit) and propaganda techniques in nonfictional text.
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Eligible Content - L.N.2.5.6 Explain, interpret, describe, and/or analyze the author’s defense of a claim to make a point or construct an argument in nonfictional text.
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