Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Authors use particular text structures to indicate their perspective.
- 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).
- Claim and evidence structure proposes a particular claim, then provides evidence to support the claim.
- Substantiated claims will have relevant, credible supporting evidence, while unsubstantiated claims will not.
- Inferences and conclusions can be drawn by analyzing and synthesizing information in text.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify the structure and content of text.
- Utilize text structure and content to make complex inferences and draw logical conclusions about an author's perspective.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Authors choose to use specific content and format their text in a particular structure to demonstrate their perspective on a topic.
Vocabulary
- Complex inferences
- Text structure
- Text content
- Comparison and contrast
- Problem and solution
- Cause and effect
- Substantiated claim
- Unsubstantiated claim
- Evidence
- Logical conclusions
- Author's perspective
