La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § XI-9324

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XI-9324 - Reading Literature

A. Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly.

B. Refer to details and examples in a text when drawing basic inferences about a story, poem, or drama.

C. Use details and examples in a text when explaining the author's purpose (e.g., what did the author use to scare you, surprise you?).

D. Use evidence from the text to summarize a story, poem or drama.

E. Determine the theme of a story, drama, or poem; refer to text to support answer.

F. Answer questions related to the relationship between characters, setting, events, or conflicts (e.g., characters and events, characters and conflicts, setting and conflicts).

G. Describe character traits (e.g., actions, deeds, dialogue, description, motivation, interactions); use details from text to support description.

H. Describe character motivation (e.g., actions, thoughts, words); use details from text to support description.

I. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.

J. Identify how the structure of a poem is different than a story (e.g., identify rhyme, shorter than stories; stanza instead of paragraph).

K. Identify how the structure of a play is different than the structure of a story (e.g., text includes props; dialogue without quotation marks acts/scenes instead of chapter).

L. Determine the author's point of view (first- or third-person).

M. Compare the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first-and third-person narrations.

N. Use evidence from both the text version and oral or visual presentation of the same text to support inferences, opinions, and conclusions.

O. Make connections between the text of a story and the visual representations, refer back to text/illustrations to support answer.

P. Make connections between the text of a play and the oral representations, refer back to text/illustrations to support answer.

Q. Compare the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.

R. Compare the treatment of patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.

S. Read or be read to and recount self-selected literary texts, such as stories, dramas, poetry, or adapted texts.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § XI-9324

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 43900 (5/1/2017).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:24.4.