La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § XI-9356

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

Section XI-9356 - Reading Literature

A. Use two or more pieces of evidence to support inferences, conclusions, or summaries of the plot, purpose, or theme within a text.

B. Determine which piece(s) of evidence provide the strongest support for inferences, conclusions, or summaries or text.

C. Use evidence to support conclusions about ideas not explicitly stated in the text.

D. Determine two or more themes or central ideas of an adapted grade-level text.

E. Determine how the theme develops.

F. Provide/create an objective summary of a text.

G. Analyze the author's choices about what is developed and included in the text and what is not developed and included related to story elements.

H. Analyze author's choices about how to relate elements of the story (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

I. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text including figurative (e.g., metaphors, similes, and idioms) and connotative meanings.

J. Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning.

K. Define satire, sarcasm, and irony.

L. Differentiate from what is directly stated in a text from what is meant.

M. Analyze multiple interpretations of a story drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live productions of a play or recorded novel or poetry) evaluating how each version interprets the source text.

N. Demonstrate knowledge of foundational words of U.S. and world literature, including how two or more texts from the same period treat similar themes or topics (e.g., historical reflection, social, morals).

O. Read or be read to a variety of literary texts or adapted texts including historical novels, classical dramas or plays, poetry, novels written by international authors, and fiction.

P. Independently read challenging grade-level literary texts.

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

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § XI-9356

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 43913 (5/1/2017).

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