Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Informational and graphic text elements develop central and supporting ideas.
- Allusions, point of view, purpose, comparisons, categories, and 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 and graphic text elements, including allusions, point of view, purpose, comparisons, categories, and figurative, connotative, and technical word meanings.
- Analyze how specific informational and graphic text elements develop the central and supporting ideas in a text.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Authors choose to use particular informational and graphic text elements to support the development of the central and supporting ideas of a text.
Vocabulary
- Informational text elements
- Graphic text elements
- Allusions
- Point of view
- Purpose
- Comparisons
- Categories
- Figurative word meanings
- Connotative word meanings
- Technical word meanings
- Central idea
- Supporting ideas
