English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 5

ELA21.5.24

Determine and evaluate the effectiveness of digital and print text features and structures, including comparison and contrast, problem and solution, and cause and effect.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • 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.
  • Text can be structured in different ways, depending on the type of information that is being communicated.
  • A text that follows a comparison and contrast structure will describe how two or more things are alike or different.
  • 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

Students are able to:
  • Identify digital and print text features and structures.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of digital and print text features and structures in communicating the intended meaning.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • 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.
  • Texts follow a predictable structure that contributes to the overall meaning of the text.
  • They can demonstrate comprehension of the text by evaluating on the purpose and effectiveness of the text features and structure the author chose to use.

Vocabulary

  • Determine
  • Evaluate
  • Effectiveness
  • Digital text features
  • Print text features
  • Text structures
  • Comparison and contrast
  • Problem and solution
  • Cause and effect
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