ELA21.11.5

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 11

ELA21.11.5

Evaluate structural and organizational details in literary, nonfiction/informational, digital, and multimodal texts to determine how genre supports the author’s purpose.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Strategies to evaluate the structure and organization of various texts.
  • Authors choose to write in different genres to support their purpose for writing.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify and evaluate structural and organizational details in texts from multiple genres.
  • Determine how the genre of a text supports the author's purpose.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There are a variety of genres of text, and authors choose to write in a particular genre to support their purpose for writing.
  • Different genres of text have different structures and organizations.

Vocabulary

  • Evaluate
  • Structural details
  • Organizational details
  • Literary text
  • Nonfiction/informational text
  • Digital text
  • Multimodal texts
  • Genre
  • Author's purpose

Aligned Learning Resources

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