ELA21.4.17b
State an opinion of the author’s use of narration, supporting reasoning with examples from the text.
State an opinion of the author’s use of narration, supporting reasoning with examples from the text.
ELA21.4.17b
ELA21.4.18
Identify the point of view in a narrative and describe how the narrative would be different if told from the perspective of a different character or narrator.
Identify the point of view in a narrative and describe how the narrative would be different if told from the perspective of a different character or narrator.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- A narrative is a story that is told either by a narrator or a character in the story.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify the point of view in a narrative.
- Describe how a narrative would be different if told from the perspective of a different character or narrator.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Narratives can be told from different points of view that offer different perspectives.
- A story will change if it is told by a different character or narrator.
Vocabulary
- Point of view
- Narrative
- Narrator
- Character
ELA21.4.18a
Compare and contrast firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic, describing the differences in focus and the information provided.
Compare and contrast firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic, describing the differences in focus and the information provided.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- Compare means tell how things are alike or similar, and contrast means tell how things are different.
- A firsthand account can be told by someone who was personally present at the event or has personal experience with the topic.
- A secondhand account can be told by someone who received information about an event or topic from someone with firsthand experience.
Skills
- Compare and contrast firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic.
- Describe the differences in focus and the information provided in firsthand and secondhand accounts.
Understanding
- Information a reader gets in a text is impacted by the source of the information.
Vocabulary
- Compare
- Contrast
- Firsthand accounts
- Secondhand accounts
- Event
- Topic
- Focus
ELA21.4.18b
Compare the perspectives of different characters within a text.
Compare the perspectives of different characters within a text.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- Characters in a text will have different perspectives, views, and opinions.
Skills
- Compare the perspectives of different characters within a text.
Understanding
- The perspective of characters in a text are often different.
Vocabulary
- Perspective
ELA21.4.19
Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Compare means tell how things are alike or similar, and contrast means tell how things are different.
- Theme is the main, recurring idea in a text, and there are common themes in literary text.
- A myth is a type of traditional literature, that often explains the early history of a people or some natural or social phenomenon, that typically involves supernatural beings or events.
- Culture is the customs or institutions of a particular nation, people, or another social group.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify the theme in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
- Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes in literature from different cultures.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Literature often includes universal (common) themes than can help the reader better understand other perspectives and cultures.
Vocabulary
- Compare
- Contrast
- Treatment
- Theme
- Stories
- Myths
- Traditional literature
- Cultures
ELA21.4.19a
Determine and state an implied theme, explicit theme, or life lesson from a myth, story, or other traditional literature.
Determine and state an implied theme, explicit theme, or life lesson from a myth, story, or other traditional literature.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- An implied theme is not directly stated in the text, while an explicit theme is directly stated in the text.
- Myths, stories, and other types of traditional literature were often written with the purpose of teaching a life lesson.
Skills
- Identify an implied theme, explicit theme, or life lesson from a myth, story, or another type of traditional literature.
- State the implied theme, explicit theme, or life lesson from a myth, story, or another type of traditional literature.
Understanding
- Sometimes an author will state the theme or life lesson in the text, while other times the reader must use clues and details from the text to infer the theme or lesson.
- Myths and traditional literature were often written with the purpose of teaching life lessons.
Vocabulary
- Implied theme
- Explicit theme
- Life lesson
- Myth
- Story
- Traditional literature
ELA21.4.19b
Analyze a common or shared theme and its development in stories, myths, and/or other traditional literature.
Analyze a common or shared theme and its development in stories, myths, and/or other traditional literature.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- An author develops a theme by including specific details in the text to help the reader identify and understand the theme.
- There are common, or universal, themes that frequently appear in literary text.
Skills
- Identify the common theme in various types of traditional literature.
- Analyze how the author developed the theme throughout the literature.
Understanding
- Literature often includes universal (common) themes, and the author suggests the theme of the text by including particular details about characters or events.
Vocabulary
- Analyze
- Theme
- Myth
- Traditional literature
ELA21.4.20
Use details and examples from a text to indicate what the text explicitly states.
Use details and examples from a text to indicate what the text explicitly states.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Explicit means directly stated within the text.
- Specific details and examples from the text an be used to demonstrate an understanding of the text's explicit meaning.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify details and examples from a text that demonstrates comprehension of the text's explicit meaning.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Explicit meanings are directly stated in text, and they can use specific details and examples from the text to show they understood the text's explicit meaning.
Vocabulary
- Details
- Examples
- Explicitly
ELA21.4.20a
Interpret facts from an informational article, using details and examples from the text to explain the interpretation.
Interpret facts from an informational article, using details and examples from the text to explain the interpretation.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- Facts gathered from an informational article can be explained using details and examples from the text.
Skills
- Explain facts sourced from an informational text, using text evidence to support the explanation.
Understanding
- To demonstrate comprehension of an informational article, they can explain the facts using specific details and examples from the text.
Vocabulary
- Interpret
- Facts
- Details
- Examples
- Informational article
ELA21.4.20b
List the main questions answered by an informational article.
List the main questions answered by an informational article.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- Informational text is often written with the purpose of answering questions.
Skills
- Identify the main questions answered by an informational text.
Understanding
- Informational articles often answer questions and identifying these questions can improve comprehension.
Vocabulary
- List
- Main questions
- Informational article
ELA21.4.20c
Categorize statements in an article or other informational text as fact or opinion and give reasons for each choice.
Categorize statements in an article or other informational text as fact or opinion and give reasons for each choice.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- A fact is a statement that can be proven with evidence, while an opinion is a personal belief that cannot be proven true in every case.
- Informational text can present both facts and opinions.
Skills
- Determine if statements in an informational text are facts or opinions.
- Describe reasons that a particular statement is identified as a fact or an opinion.
Understanding
- A fact is a thing that is known or proved to be true, and an opinion is a personal view or judgment about something.
- To fully comprehend a text, they must distinguish between facts and opinions.
- They can determine if a statement is a fact or an opinion using their current knowledge or by referencing details in a text.
Vocabulary
- Categorize
- Fact
- Opinion
- Reasons
ELA21.4.20d
Explain the differences between primary and secondary sources, giving examples from texts.
Explain the differences between primary and secondary sources, giving examples from texts.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- Primary sources are firsthand accounts of events and provide raw information.
- Secondary sources explain, analyze, or summarize primary sources.
Skills
- Explain the differences between primary and secondary sources.
- Support their explanation with specific examples from the text.
Understanding
- The information a reader gets from a text is impacted by the source of the information.
- Primary and secondary sources will be told from different perspectives.
Vocabulary
- Primary sources
- Secondary source
ELA21.4.21
Explain how relevant details support the implied or explicit main idea of a text.
Explain how relevant details support the implied or explicit main idea of a text.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- The main idea is the most important idea presented in the text.
- Sometimes an author will clearly state the main idea, while other times an author will merely suggest the main idea.
- The supporting details explain the main idea or provide more information about the main idea.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify the implied or explicit main idea of a text.
- Use relevant details to support the main idea of a text.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Most texts have a main idea, or most important message, and supporting details, which provide more information about the main idea.
- An author can choose to state the main idea in the text or provide clues through details in the text to imply the main idea.
Vocabulary
- Implied main idea
- Explicit main idea
- Relevant details
ELA21.4.21a
Determine the central idea or theme of a text.
Determine the central idea or theme of a text.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- Theme is the main, recurring idea in a text.
Skills
- Determine the central idea or theme of a text.
Understanding
- The central idea or theme of a text is conveyed through details in the text.
Vocabulary
- Central idea
- Theme
ELA21.4.21b
Explain the difference between implied and explicit details.
Explain the difference between implied and explicit details.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- An author can directly state details, or an author can include details that require the reader to make inferences.
Skills
- Identify implied and explicit details and explain how they are different.
Understanding
- An author can choose to explicitly state details in the text or provide details that require the reader to infer the details.
Vocabulary
- Implied detail
- Explicit detail
ELA21.4.21c
Summarize the key supporting details by citing evidence from a text.
Summarize the key supporting details by citing evidence from a text.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- A summary is a short statement explaining the main point or most important details of a text.
Skills
- Cite evidence from the text to create a summary of a text's most important details.
Understanding
- A summary is a short explanation of the most important details from a text, and statements in a summary should be supported with textual evidence.
Vocabulary
- Summarize
- Key supporting details
- Citing
- Evidence
ELA21.4.22
Analyze events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in informational texts, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
Analyze events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in informational texts, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Informational text often describes events, procedures, ideas, or concepts.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Use specific information in informational text to describe events, procedures, ideas, or concepts.
- Explain the causes and effects of the events described in text.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- They can use information from the text to examine and interpret events, procedures, ideas, or concepts from informational texts.
- Some informational text will explain the causes and effects of certain events.
Vocabulary
- Analyze
- Events
- Procedures
- Ideas
- Concepts
- Informational texts
ELA21.4.22a
Cite evidence to explain the author’s perspective toward a topic in an informational text.
Cite evidence to explain the author’s perspective toward a topic in an informational text.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- Authors of informational text have personal perspectives or viewpoints that are reflected in their writing.
Skills
- Identify and explain an author's perspective toward a topic in informational text.
- Provide textual evidence to support their explanation of the author's perspective.
Understanding
- Authors of informational text have views and opinions about the topics they write about, and their perspectives will be reflected within the text.
Vocabulary
- Cite
- Evidence
- Author's perspective
- Topic
- Informational text
ELA21.4.23
Evaluate how text features and structures contribute to the meaning of an informational text.
Evaluate how text features and structures contribute to the meaning of an informational text.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Informational text often includes text features, such as graphs, charts, diagrams, photographs, etc., to help readers better understand the information in the text.
- Informational text often follows a predictable text structure.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify and describe how text features contribute to the meaning of informational text.
- Identify and describe how text structure contributes to the meaning of informational text.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Text features are often included in informational text to help readers better understand the author's intended meaning and message.
- Informational texts often follow a predictable text structure, and identifying the structure of a text can improve comprehension.
Vocabulary
- Text features
- Text structures
- Informational texts
ELA21.4.23a
Identify and describe the structures within a text, including description, comparison and contrast, sequence, problem and solution, and cause and effect.
Identify and describe the structures within a text, including description, comparison and contrast, sequence, problem and solution, and cause and effect.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- Informational text often follows a particular text structure and understanding the types of text structure can help improve comprehension.
- A text that follows a description structure will provide facts and details about a topic.
- A text that follows a comparison and contrast structure will describe how two or more things are alike or different.
- A text that follows a sequence text structure will describe events that occurred in chronological order.
- Problem and solution text structure describes a problem and how the problem was solved or could be solved.
- Cause and effect text structure describes an event (the cause) and the consequence or result of the event (the effect).
Skills
- Identify the type of text structure a text follows.
- Describe characteristics of the text structure.
Understanding
- Texts follow a predictable structure that contributes to the overall meaning of the text.
Vocabulary
- Description
- Comparison and contrast
- Sequence
- Problem and solution
- Cause and effect
ELA21.4.23b
Interpret information from text features in both print and digital formats.
Interpret information from text features in both print and digital formats.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- Text features are items like charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages.
- Text features can provide additional information or enhance understanding of the text.
Skills
- Identify text features in print and digital formats.
- Explain the meaning of text features in print and digital formats.
Understanding
- Text features can be found in printed and digital text materials.
- Text features often provide important information about details in the text or can enhance understanding of details in the text.
Vocabulary
- Text features
- Print format
- Digital format
ELA21.4.24
Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points and claims in an informational text or argument.
Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points and claims in an informational text or argument.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Authors of informational texts or argumentative writings often include logical reasons and evidence to support their points or claims.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify key points and claims in an informational text or argument.
- Identify reasons and text evidence that supports the points or claims of an author.
- Explain how the author used reasons and evidence to support their key points and claims.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Authors use logical reasoning and factual evidence to support their points and claims within informational texts or arguments.
Vocabulary
- Reasons
- Evidence
- Points
- Claims
- Informational text
- Argument
ELA21.4.24a
Make text-based inferences to determine possible reasons for an author’s stance.
Make text-based inferences to determine possible reasons for an author’s stance.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- A text-based inference is a logical conclusion that is drawn from details in the text.
- Authors often take a particular stance, or attitude, towards the topic of their writing.
Skills
- Make inferences about an author's stance using evidence from the text.
Understanding
- Authors will often have a particular attitude towards the topic of their writing, and readers can determine an author's stance by using text evidence to draw conclusions.
Vocabulary
- Text-based inference
- Stance
ELA21.4.25
Explain how the form of a poem contributes to its meaning.
Explain how the form of a poem contributes to its meaning.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Poetry can be written in different formats.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify the form of a poem.
- Describe how a poem's form helps convey its meaning.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Poems have varying forms that can be used to convey different meanings.
Vocabulary
- Poem
- Form
ELA21.4.26
Analyze how rhythm and rhyme in poetry contribute to meaning.
Analyze how rhythm and rhyme in poetry contribute to meaning.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Poetry is a genre of text that uses distinctive style and rhythm to aid in the expression of feelings.
- Words rhyme if their vowel and ending sounds are the same.
- Rhythm is a steady beat made by stressed syllables in spoken words.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify rhythm and rhyme in poetry.
- Describe how rhythm and rhyme convey meaning in a poem.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Authors of poetry select particular rhyme and rhythm schemes to convey meaning.
Vocabulary
- Rhythm
- Rhyme
ELA21.4.LF.C.R.L
Listening
Listening
ELA21.4.27
Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.
Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Active listening skills.
- Just like in written language, a speaker will often provide reasons and evidence to support their key points.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify a speaker's main points.
- Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker uses to support their main points.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Like an author of written text, speakers use reasons and evidence to support their key points.
Vocabulary
- Reasons
- Speaker
- Evidence
- Points
ELA21.4.LF.C.E
Expression
Expression
ELA21.4.LF.C.E.W
Writing
Writing
ELA21.4.28
Write clear and coherent responses to texts, using explicit or implicit evidence that supports a particular point.
Write clear and coherent responses to texts, using explicit or implicit evidence that supports a particular point.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Clear and coherent writing follows a particular structure and is easily understood by readers.
- Text-based responses should include textual evidence that is explicit (direct quotation) or implicit (summary or paraphrase).
Skills
Students are able to:
- Respond to texts in clear, coherent writing that using textual evidence to support their points.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- They can demonstrate comprehension of text by creating clear and coherent writing that utilizes textual evidence to support points.
Vocabulary
- Clear
- Coherent
- Explicit evidence
- Implicit evidence
ELA21.4.LF.C.E.S
Speaking
Speaking
ELA21.4.29
Add audio recordings to presentations, when appropriate, to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
Add audio recordings to presentations, when appropriate, to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Adding sound recordings to written presentations can supplement the development of main ideas or themes.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Create audio recordings to use with presentations to enhance the development of main ideas or theme.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There are occasions when particular sounds can improve the development of main ideas or themes.
Vocabulary
- Audio recordings
- Presentations
- Enhance
- Development
- Main ideas
- Themes
ELA21.4.30
Synthesize information on a topic in order to write or speak knowledgeably about the subject.
Synthesize information on a topic in order to write or speak knowledgeably about the subject.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Synthesizing information about a topic means to combine information from many different sources.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Write or speak knowledgeable about a topic by synthesizing information from multiple sources.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- To become knowledgeable about a topic, they have to combine their knowledge gained from a variety of sources.
Vocabulary
- Synthesize
- Topic
- Subject
ELA21.4.30a
Make complex inferences within and across texts to determine the importance of information.
Make complex inferences within and across texts to determine the importance of information.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- A complex inference is drawing a conclusion based on available information within one text or across multiple texts.
Skills
- Determine the importance of information by making complex inferences within one text or across multiple texts.
Understanding
- Complex inferences can be used to determine the importance of information within a text or within a body of knowledge.
Vocabulary
- Inferences
ELA21.4.30b
Use evidence to explain information across texts including different perspectives and/or points of view.
Use evidence to explain information across texts including different perspectives and/or points of view.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- Different texts will often display different perspectives and different points of view.
Skills
- Use evidence to explain information across different texts.
Understanding
- Textual evidence must be used to explain information found in different texts.
Vocabulary
- Evidence
- Perspectives
- Points of view
