Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Informational text elements develop central and supporting ideas.
- Categories, point of view, purpose, figurative, connotative, and technical word meanings are types of informational text elements that develop central and supporting ideas.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify informational text elements, including categories, point of view, purpose, and figurative, connotative, and technical word meanings.
- Evaluate the contribution of specific informational text elements to developing the central and supporting ideas in a text.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Authors choose to use particular informational text elements to support the development of the central and supporting ideas of a text.
Vocabulary
- Informational text elements
- Categories
- Point of view
- Purpose
- Figurative word meaning
- Connotative word meaning
- Technical word meaning
- Central ideas
- Supporting ideas
