La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § XI-9330

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

Section XI-9330 - Reading Literature

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

B. Refer to specific text evidence to support inferences, interpretations, or conclusions.

C. Summarize a portion of text such as a paragraph or a chapter.

D. Summarize a text from beginning to end in a few sentences.

E. Determine the theme of a story, drama, or poem including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic.

F. Compare characters, settings, events within a story; provide or identify specific details in the text to support the comparison.

G. Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).

H. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.

I. Use signal words (e.g., meanwhile, unlike, next) to identify common types of text structure (e.g., sequence, compare/contrast, cause/effect, description) within a text.

J. Explain how a series of chapters fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular text.

K. Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.

L. Explain how the description of characters, setting, or events might change if the person telling the story changed.

M. Interpret the meaning of metaphors and similes to help explain the setting within a text.

N. Interpret the meaning of metaphors and similes to help determine the mood within a text.

O. Describe how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning or tone of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).

P. Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.

Q. Read or be read to a variety of literary texts or adapted texts, including graphic novels, poetry, and fiction.

R. Use a variety of strategies to derive meaning from a variety of print and non-print literary texts.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § XI-9330

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 43902 (5/1/2017).

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