LARIT 241-250
• Identifies the use of complex literary devices in literary text (e.g., antithesis, paradox, parallelism)
LARIT 231-240
• Uses reference materials to determine the meaning and pronunciation of words (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus, available technology)
• Identifies common characteristics of myths, biographies, autobiographies;editorials, essays; science fiction, supernatural tales; parodies, plays, drama; American, British, world and ancient literature; satire, memoirs, articles, and advertisements; magazines, news stories, primary and secondary source historical documents; variety of literary forms and genres, fiction; variety of informational texts, maps, catalogs, directions; job-related materials, business letters, periodicals, professional journals, and memoranda, procedures; public documents, textbooks, schedules, manuals, policies, and reference materials• Distinguishes among common characteristics of poems, nonfiction
• Identifies the following in literary text: alliteration, symbolism, onomatopoeia, satire, style, rhyme, foreshadowing, point of view, figurative language, similes, tone, flashbacks, dialogue, mood, suspense, allusion, descriptions• Identifies archetypes and symbols (e.g., heroes, themes, settings) and complex literary devices in literary text (e.g., antithesis, paradox,
parallelism) used in literary text
• Analyzes the impact of style on the overall quality, the use of similes, personification, alliteration, hyperbole, of a literary work
• Identifies the complex components, use of conflict, use of resolution, and cause and effect relationships of plot in literary text using literal comprehension skills
• Identifies settings, point of view, protagonist and/or antagonist, irony, internal and external conflicts between characters, simple and complex actions between characters in literary text using literal comprehension skills
• Interprets the use of complex elements, assertion, interactions between characters, conflict/resolution of plot in literary text
• Describes techniques and details used by an author to create mood in a literary text• Evaluates and Examines techniques and the effectiveness of techniques used by an author to accomplish purpose in informational text• Assesses when the author's purpose is to persuade or inform in informational text
• Vocabulary: Antithesis, Metonymy, Scansion, Synecdoche LARIT 221-230
• Uses reference materials to determine the meaning and pronunciation of words (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus, available technology)
• Identifies common characteristics of myths and of biographies and autobiographies; editorials and essays; science fiction and supernatural tales; parodies and of plays and drama; poems; American, British, and world and ancient literature; satire, memoirs, and articles; advertisements; magazines; news stories; primary and secondary source historical documents; fiction, nonfiction; , ,
• Identifies common characteristics in informational texts; directions, maps, catalogs, job-related materials, business letters, and memoranda, periodicals and professional journals, procedures, public documents, schedules, and reference materials, textbooks, manuals and policies,
• Recognizes and uses text organizers in informational text (e.g., text guides, maps, tables)• Identifies the following in literary text: alliteration, symbolism, onomatopoeia, rhyme, style, satire, figurative language, point of view, foreshadowing, similes, tone, flashbacks, dialogue, mood, suspense, metaphors, allusion, descriptions, personification• Recognizes examples of imagery, irony, metaphors, cause and effect relationships, simple and complex actions between characters in literary text
• Identifies archetypes and symbols (e.g., heroes, themes, settings), the complex components of plot, the use of conflict in plot, the use of resolution, settings, internal and external conflicts, the protagonist and/or antagonist, point of view used in literary text using literal comprehension skills
• Evaluates point of view, persuasive techniques in a literary work
• Analyzes the effectiveness of the author's use of language (e.g., figures of speech, imagery, sounds of poetry), effects of complex literary devices on the overall quality (e.g., dialogue, irony, symbolism), the impact of style, the use of similes, the use of personification, the use of alliteration, the use of hyperbole, persuasive techniques in literary text
• Interprets the use of complex elements, the conflict/resolution, interactions between characters, assertion of plot in literary text
• Describes techniques and details used by an author to create mood in a literary text• Evaluates techniques used by an author to accomplish purpose and assertion/viewpoint in informational text
• Assesses when the author's purpose is to persuade or inform in informational text
• Examines techniques that convey the author's viewpoint in informational text
• Infers author's viewpoint/attitude in literary text
• Vocabulary: Archetype, First person, Iambic pentameter. Metric feet, Omniscient, Paradox. Pathetic fallacy, Second person, Standard English, Symbolism, Symbolize, Third person, Viewpoint, LARIT 211-220 • Identifies literary text as a myth, common characteristics of poems, characteristics of fables, of a fantasy and of historical fiction; biographies and autobiographies and as folk tales, common characteristics of adventure stories, plays, characteristics of primary and secondary source historical documents; foreshadowing (hints that indicate what is to come in a story), flashbacks (interruptions that indicate something that has previously happened)
• Recognizes examples of alliteration, onomatopoeia, similes, alliteration; the use of cause and effect relationships, use of conflict, use of resolution in plot, in literary text
• Analyzes literary texts to determine how suspense is achieved, how details impact descriptions; devices used by an author to accomplish his/her purpose
• Identifies and Interprets metaphors; the complex components of plot , sequence of events, settings in literary text
• Evaluates devices used by an author in literary text (e.g., dialogue, foreshadowing, flashbacks); author's use of language to convey meaning (e.g., description, imagery, sounds of poetry); author's style and its effects
• Interprets the use of similes, personification , alliteration in literary text
• Recognizes and describes how literary elements are used to develop character in literary text usingliteral comprehension skills
• Identifies first person & third person point of view/perspective in literary text
• Assesses events important to the development of plot, the main conflict and the resolution, & character development • Infers author's viewpoint/attitude in literary text
• Analyzes techniques used by an author to entertain or to inform & persuasive techniques used by an author in literary text
• Distinguishes among nonfiction literary forms
• Uses reference materials to determine meaning and pronunciation of words (e.g., glossary, dictionary, thesaurus), text organizers (e.g., table of contents, charts, glossary)
• Recognizes characteristics of magazines, editorials, news stories, and essays, advertisements, periodicals, bus routes, technical directions, business letters, procedures, directions, catalogs, and textbooks
• Differentiates among the various forms of informational text
• Interprets techniques used by an author to accomplish purpose in informational text
• Discriminates when the author's purpose is to persuade or to inform in informational text
• Analyzes assertion/viewpoint in informational text• Allusion • Appendix • Characterization • Extended metaphor • Feeling • Guide letters • Homophone • Oxymoron • Suspense LARIT 201-210
• Distinguishes among nonfiction literary forms
• Identifies characteristics of fables, of a fantasy, of adventure stories, and of historical fiction & of poems
• Identifies literary texts as plays, folk tales, biographies and autobiographies, science fiction and supernatural tales, & myths
• Identifies foreshadowing (hints that indicate what is to come in a story), & the use of exaggeration (hyperbole) in literary text
• Identifies flashbacks (interruptions that indicate something that has previously happened) & rhyme as a literary device in literary text
• Recognizes similes, onomatopoeia & examples of alliteration in literary text
• Examines the author's use of language in literary text (e.g., description, sounds of poetry, imagery)
• Evaluates author's use of language to convey meaning in text (e.g., description, imagery, sounds of poetry) & author's style and its effects on literary text
• Interprets & Analyzes the use of metaphors in literary text
• Interprets the use of similes, personification & alliteration & when the author's purpose is to persuade in literary text
• Identifies the problem/conflict in a literary passage & the complex components of plot using literal comprehension skills
• Recognizes the use of conflict and resolution & of cause and effect relationships in plot using literal comprehension skills
• Identifies first person & third person point of view/perspective,settings, sequence of events in literary text
• Assesses events important to the development of plot, the main conflict and the resolution, & character development in literary text • Infers viewpoint in literary text
• Analyzes techniques used by an author to entertain or to inform & literary devices used by an author to accomplish his/her purpose in literary text
• Uses reference materials to determine meaning and pronunciation of words (e.g., glossary, dictionary, thesaurus)
• Identifies characteristics of reference materials (e.g., dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus) & of primary and secondary source historical documents
• Differentiates among the various forms of informational text
• Recognizes characteristics of periodicals, bus routes, technical directions, business letters, procedures, directions, catalogs, various reference materials, and textbooks, & of magazines, editorials, news stories, advertisements and essays
• Identifies primary and secondary sources & text organizers in informational text (e.g., index, glossary, appendix)
• Interprets techniques used by an author to accomplish purpose in informational text
• Discriminates when the author's purpose is to persuade or to inform in informational text
• Analyzes assertion/viewpoint in informational text• Alliteration • Assonance • British literature • Conflict • Consonance • Coupon • Exaggeration • Exposition • Falling action • Flashback
• Literary device • Literary element • Memorandum • Narrate • Persuasive • Present tense • Pun • Reference • Scene • Tale • Word play LARIT 191-200 • Recognizes characteristics of fairy tales, or folk tales. of myths, of poems, and of fables, of fiction, and of nonfiction
• Distinguishes & Differentiates among nonfiction forms of literary text
• Recognizes & Identifies the genre of a literary text as fantasy & fiction
• Recognizes characteristics of historical fiction, of chapter books, of informal letters, and of plays
• Recognizes figurative language, examples of dialogue, words that imitate sounds (onomatopoeia) in literary text
• Recognizes & Analyzes comparisons using "like" or "as" (similes) in literary text
• Examines the author's use of language in literary text (e.g., description, sounds of poetry, imagery)
• Infers & Examines & Identifies point of view in a literary work
• Analyzes devices used by an author to accomplish purpose in literary text
• Identifies characters, events, how the main problem or conflict is resolved, the use of cause and effect relationships using literal comprehension skills
• Recognizes first & third person point of view in literary text
• Analyzes sequence of events, character development, events important to plot, & setting in literary text• Interprets when the author's purpose is to inform, persuade, or entertain in literary text
• Uses reference materials to determine the meaning and pronunciation of words (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus)
• Identifies primary and secondary sources in informational text
• Recognizes characteristics of biographies and autobiographies & of a variety of informational texts
• Identifies characteristics of reports, directions, business letters, procedures, and textbooks & reference materials (e.g., dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus), & of maps, advertisements, magazines
• Identifies text organizers in informational text (e.g., index, glossary, appendix)
• Analyzes when the author's purpose is to inform or persuade & techniques used by an author to accomplish purpose in informational text
• Interprets author's viewpoint in informational text • Annotated bibliography • Editorial • Footnote • Metaphor LARIT 181-190
• Identifies & Recognizes stories & literary text as "make-believe" (fiction) or fantasy
• Recognizes characteristics of fairy tales, of folk tales,myths, of poems, and of fables, of fiction, and of nonfiction
• Recognizes characteristics of historical fiction, of chapter books, of informal letters, and of plays
• Differentiates among various forms of literary genre• Recognizes & Identifies the repetition of words that have the same ending sound (rhyme) & words that imitate sounds (onomatopoeia) in literary text
• Recognizes comparisons using "like" or "as" (similes), parts of a book (e.g., title page, author, table of contents) & examples of dialogue in literary text
• Analyzes similes & who is speaking in literary text
• Identifies main characters, events,settings, characters, problems in literary texts using literal comprehension skills
• Identifies the use of cause and effect relationships & how the main problem or conflict of a plot is resolved in plot using literal comprehension skills
• Identifies & Examines who is telling the story (point of view) in literary text
• Recognizes first person & third person point of view in literary text • Analyzes viewpoint, sequence of events, character development, setting, how characters are introduced, & events important to plot development in literary text
• Interprets the author's purpose in literary text
• Distinguishes among nonfiction forms of literary text
• Recognizes characteristics of biographies and autobiographies, advertisements, magazines
• Identifies primary and secondary sources in informational text
• Uses reference materials to determine the meaning and pronunciation of words (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus)
• Analyzes when the author's purpose is to inform or persuade & techniques used by an author to accomplish purpose in informational text
• Identifies characteristics of maps, reports, directions, business letters, procedures, and textbooks, & reference materials (e.g., dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus)
• Interprets author's viewpoint in informational text • Advertise • Almanac • American literature • Anecdote • Anthology • Argue • Autobiography • Bibliography • Book review • Brochure • Caption • Climax • Develop • Diary • Drama • Entertain • Excerpt • Explain • Fiction • Foreshadowing • Glossary • Graphic organizer • Historical fiction • Inform • Magazine • Memoir • Meter • Myth • News • Novel • Persuade • Picture book • Policy • Purpose • Recipe • Reference book • Resolution • Resource • Rhythm • Rising action • Satire • Speaker • Stanza • Thesaurus • Vocabulary
LARIT 171-180
• Uses picture dictionaries to gain understanding of unfamiliar words
• Identifies characteristics of a variety of literary forms and genres
• Identifies characteristics of fairy tales and of folk tales
• Identifies stories as "make-believe" (fiction)
• Identifies stories that could happen (nonfiction)
• Identifies characteristics of legends, fables, myths, poems, nursery rhymes, picture books, predictable books, and newspapers
• Identifies characteristics of a variety of informational texts
• Identifies characteristics of reference materials (e.g., atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia)• Recognizes the repetition of words that have the same ending sound (rhyme) in literary text• Identifies main characters in literary text using literal comprehension skills
• Recognizes who is telling the story (point of view) in literary text
• Examines setting, sequence of events, problem/conflict in literary text
• Assesses the author's purpose in informational text • Main character • Make-believe • Newspaper • Nonfiction • Plot • Point of view • Science fiction • Setting • Tall tale
LARIT 161-170 • Uses picture dictionaries to gain understanding of unfamiliar words
• Identifies characteristics of a variety of literary forms and genres
• Identifies characteristics of folk tales, legends, fables, myths, poems, nursery rhymes, picture books, predictable books, and letters
• Identifies characteristics of a variety of informational texts
• Identifies characteristics of reference materials (e.g., atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia)• Recognizes who is telling the story (point of view) in literary text
• Examines setting , sequence of events, problem/conflict in literary text • Dictionary • Fairy tale • Index • Note • Table of contents • Title page
LARIT Below 161 • Uses picture dictionaries to gain understanding of unfamiliar words
• Identifies characteristics of a variety of literary forms and genres
• Identifies characteristics of folk tales, legends, fables, myths, poems, nursery rhymes, picture books, and predictable books
• Identifies characteristics of a variety of informational texts• Recognizes who is telling the story (point of view) in literary text
• Examines setting, sequence of events, problem/conflict in literary text • Advertisement • Business letter • Directions • Journal • Legend • List • Outline • Predict • Short story • Thank-you note
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LARIT 241-250
• Identifies the use of complex literary devices in literary text (e.g., antithesis, paradox, parallelism)
LARIT 231-240
• Uses reference materials to determine the meaning and pronunciation of words (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus, available technology)
• Identifies common characteristics of myths, biographies, autobiographies;editorials, essays; science fiction, supernatural tales; parodies, plays, drama; American, British, world and ancient literature; satire, memoirs, articles, and advertisements; magazines, news stories, primary and secondary source historical documents; variety of literary forms and genres, fiction; variety of informational texts, maps, catalogs, directions; job-related materials, business letters, periodicals, professional journals, and memoranda, procedures; public documents, textbooks, schedules, manuals, policies, and reference materials• Distinguishes among common characteristics of poems, nonfiction
• Identifies the following in literary text: alliteration, symbolism, onomatopoeia, satire, style, rhyme, foreshadowing, point of view, figurative language, similes, tone, flashbacks, dialogue, mood, suspense, allusion, descriptions• Identifies archetypes and symbols (e.g., heroes, themes, settings) and complex literary devices in literary text (e.g., antithesis, paradox,
parallelism) used in literary text
• Analyzes the impact of style on the overall quality, the use of similes, personification, alliteration, hyperbole, of a literary work
• Identifies the complex components, use of conflict, use of resolution, and cause and effect relationships of plot in literary text using literal comprehension skills
• Identifies settings, point of view, protagonist and/or antagonist, irony, internal and external conflicts between characters, simple and complex actions between characters in literary text using literal comprehension skills
• Interprets the use of complex elements, assertion, interactions between characters, conflict/resolution of plot in literary text
• Describes techniques and details used by an author to create mood in a literary text • Evaluates and Examines techniques and the effectiveness of techniques used by an author to accomplish purpose in informational text• Assesses when the author's purpose is to persuade or inform in informational text
• Vocabulary: Antithesis, Metonymy, Scansion, Synecdoche
LARIT 221-230
• Uses reference materials to determine the meaning and pronunciation of words (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus, available technology)
• Identifies common characteristics of myths and of biographies and autobiographies; editorials and essays; science fiction and supernatural tales; parodies and of plays and drama; poems; American, British, and world and ancient literature; satire, memoirs, and articles; advertisements; magazines; news stories; primary and secondary source historical documents; fiction, nonfiction; , ,
• Identifies common characteristics in informational texts; directions, maps, catalogs, job-related materials, business letters, and memoranda, periodicals and professional journals, procedures, public documents, schedules, and reference materials, textbooks, manuals and policies,
• Recognizes and uses text organizers in informational text (e.g., text guides, maps, tables) • Identifies the following in literary text: alliteration, symbolism, onomatopoeia, rhyme, style, satire, figurative language, point of view, foreshadowing, similes, tone, flashbacks, dialogue, mood, suspense, metaphors, allusion, descriptions, personification• Recognizes examples of imagery, irony, metaphors, cause and effect relationships, simple and complex actions between characters in literary text
• Identifies archetypes and symbols (e.g., heroes, themes, settings), the complex components of plot, the use of conflict in plot, the use of resolution, settings, internal and external conflicts, the protagonist and/or antagonist, point of view used in literary text using literal comprehension skills
• Evaluates point of view, persuasive techniques in a literary work
• Analyzes the effectiveness of the author's use of language (e.g., figures of speech, imagery, sounds of poetry), effects of complex literary devices on the overall quality (e.g., dialogue, irony, symbolism), the impact of style, the use of similes, the use of personification, the use of alliteration, the use of hyperbole, persuasive techniques in literary text
• Interprets the use of complex elements, the conflict/resolution, interactions between characters, assertion of plot in literary text
• Describes techniques and details used by an author to create mood in a literary text • Evaluates techniques used by an author to accomplish purpose and assertion/viewpoint in informational text
• Assesses when the author's purpose is to persuade or inform in informational text
• Examines techniques that convey the author's viewpoint in informational text
• Infers author's viewpoint/attitude in literary text
• Vocabulary: Archetype, First person, Iambic pentameter. Metric feet, Omniscient, Paradox. Pathetic fallacy, Second person, Standard English, Symbolism, Symbolize, Third person, Viewpoint,
LARIT 211-220
• Identifies literary text as a myth, common characteristics of poems, characteristics of fables, of a fantasy and of historical fiction; biographies and autobiographies and as folk tales, common characteristics of adventure stories, plays, characteristics of primary and secondary source historical documents; foreshadowing (hints that indicate what is to come in a story), flashbacks (interruptions that indicate something that has previously happened)
• Recognizes examples of alliteration, onomatopoeia, similes, alliteration; the use of cause and effect relationships, use of conflict, use of resolution in plot, in literary text
• Analyzes literary texts to determine how suspense is achieved, how details impact descriptions; devices used by an author to accomplish his/her purpose
• Identifies and Interprets metaphors; the complex components of plot , sequence of events, settings in literary text
• Evaluates devices used by an author in literary text (e.g., dialogue, foreshadowing, flashbacks); author's use of language to convey meaning (e.g., description, imagery, sounds of poetry); author's style and its effects
• Interprets the use of similes, personification , alliteration in literary text
• Recognizes and describes how literary elements are used to develop character in literary text usingliteral comprehension skills
• Identifies first person & third person point of view/perspective in literary text
• Assesses events important to the development of plot, the main conflict and the resolution, & character development
• Infers author's viewpoint/attitude in literary text
• Analyzes techniques used by an author to entertain or to inform & persuasive techniques used by an author in literary text
• Distinguishes among nonfiction literary forms
• Uses reference materials to determine meaning and pronunciation of words (e.g., glossary, dictionary, thesaurus), text organizers (e.g., table of contents, charts, glossary)
• Recognizes characteristics of magazines, editorials, news stories, and essays, advertisements, periodicals, bus routes, technical directions, business letters, procedures, directions, catalogs, and textbooks
• Differentiates among the various forms of informational text
• Interprets techniques used by an author to accomplish purpose in informational text
• Discriminates when the author's purpose is to persuade or to inform in informational text
• Analyzes assertion/viewpoint in informational text • Allusion • Appendix • Characterization • Extended metaphor • Feeling • Guide letters • Homophone • Oxymoron • Suspense
LARIT 201-210
• Distinguishes among nonfiction literary forms
• Identifies characteristics of fables, of a fantasy, of adventure stories, and of historical fiction & of poems
• Identifies literary texts as plays, folk tales, biographies and autobiographies, science fiction and supernatural tales, & myths
• Identifies foreshadowing (hints that indicate what is to come in a story), & the use of exaggeration (hyperbole) in literary text
• Identifies flashbacks (interruptions that indicate something that has previously happened) & rhyme as a literary device in literary text
• Recognizes similes, onomatopoeia & examples of alliteration in literary text
• Examines the author's use of language in literary text (e.g., description, sounds of poetry, imagery)
• Evaluates author's use of language to convey meaning in text (e.g., description, imagery, sounds of poetry) & author's style and its effects on literary text
• Interprets & Analyzes the use of metaphors in literary text
• Interprets the use of similes, personification & alliteration & when the author's purpose is to persuade in literary text
• Identifies the problem/conflict in a literary passage & the complex components of plot using literal comprehension skills
• Recognizes the use of conflict and resolution & of cause and effect relationships in plot using literal comprehension skills
• Identifies first person & third person point of view/perspective,settings, sequence of events in literary text
• Assesses events important to the development of plot, the main conflict and the resolution, & character development in literary text
• Infers viewpoint in literary text
• Analyzes techniques used by an author to entertain or to inform & literary devices used by an author to accomplish his/her purpose in literary text
• Uses reference materials to determine meaning and pronunciation of words (e.g., glossary, dictionary, thesaurus)
• Identifies characteristics of reference materials (e.g., dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus) & of primary and secondary source historical documents
• Differentiates among the various forms of informational text
• Recognizes characteristics of periodicals, bus routes, technical directions, business letters, procedures, directions, catalogs, various reference materials, and textbooks, & of magazines, editorials, news stories, advertisements and essays
• Identifies primary and secondary sources & text organizers in informational text (e.g., index, glossary, appendix)
• Interprets techniques used by an author to accomplish purpose in informational text
• Discriminates when the author's purpose is to persuade or to inform in informational text
• Analyzes assertion/viewpoint in informational text • Alliteration • Assonance • British literature • Conflict • Consonance • Coupon • Exaggeration • Exposition • Falling action • Flashback
• Literary device • Literary element • Memorandum • Narrate • Persuasive • Present tense • Pun • Reference • Scene • Tale • Word play
LARIT 191-200
• Recognizes characteristics of fairy tales, or folk tales. of myths, of poems, and of fables, of fiction, and of nonfiction
• Distinguishes & Differentiates among nonfiction forms of literary text
• Recognizes & Identifies the genre of a literary text as fantasy & fiction
• Recognizes characteristics of historical fiction, of chapter books, of informal letters, and of plays
• Recognizes figurative language, examples of dialogue, words that imitate sounds (onomatopoeia) in literary text
• Recognizes & Analyzes comparisons using "like" or "as" (similes) in literary text
• Examines the author's use of language in literary text (e.g., description, sounds of poetry, imagery)
• Infers & Examines & Identifies point of view in a literary work
• Analyzes devices used by an author to accomplish purpose in literary text
• Identifies characters, events, how the main problem or conflict is resolved, the use of cause and effect relationships using literal comprehension skills
• Recognizes first & third person point of view in literary text
• Analyzes sequence of events, character development, events important to plot, & setting in literary text• Interprets when the author's purpose is to inform, persuade, or entertain in literary text
• Uses reference materials to determine the meaning and pronunciation of words (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus)
• Identifies primary and secondary sources in informational text
• Recognizes characteristics of biographies and autobiographies & of a variety of informational texts
• Identifies characteristics of reports, directions, business letters, procedures, and textbooks & reference materials (e.g., dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus), & of maps, advertisements, magazines
• Identifies text organizers in informational text (e.g., index, glossary, appendix)
• Analyzes when the author's purpose is to inform or persuade & techniques used by an author to accomplish purpose in informational text
• Interprets author's viewpoint in informational text
• Annotated bibliography • Editorial • Footnote • Metaphor
LARIT 181-190
• Identifies & Recognizes stories & literary text as "make-believe" (fiction) or fantasy
• Recognizes characteristics of fairy tales, of folk tales,myths, of poems, and of fables, of fiction, and of nonfiction
• Recognizes characteristics of historical fiction, of chapter books, of informal letters, and of plays
• Differentiates among various forms of literary genre • Recognizes & Identifies the repetition of words that have the same ending sound (rhyme) & words that imitate sounds (onomatopoeia) in literary text
• Recognizes comparisons using "like" or "as" (similes), parts of a book (e.g., title page, author, table of contents) & examples of dialogue in literary text
• Analyzes similes & who is speaking in literary text
• Identifies main characters, events,settings, characters, problems in literary texts using literal comprehension skills
• Identifies the use of cause and effect relationships & how the main problem or conflict of a plot is resolved in plot using literal comprehension skills
• Identifies & Examines who is telling the story (point of view) in literary text
• Recognizes first person & third person point of view in literary text
• Analyzes viewpoint, sequence of events, character development, setting, how characters are introduced, & events important to plot development in literary text
• Interprets the author's purpose in literary text
• Distinguishes among nonfiction forms of literary text
• Recognizes characteristics of biographies and autobiographies, advertisements, magazines
• Identifies primary and secondary sources in informational text
• Uses reference materials to determine the meaning and pronunciation of words (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus)
• Analyzes when the author's purpose is to inform or persuade & techniques used by an author to accomplish purpose in informational text
• Identifies characteristics of maps, reports, directions, business letters, procedures, and textbooks, & reference materials (e.g., dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus)
• Interprets author's viewpoint in informational text
• Advertise • Almanac • American literature • Anecdote • Anthology • Argue • Autobiography • Bibliography • Book review • Brochure • Caption • Climax • Develop • Diary • Drama • Entertain • Excerpt • Explain • Fiction • Foreshadowing • Glossary • Graphic organizer • Historical fiction • Inform • Magazine • Memoir • Meter • Myth • News • Novel • Persuade • Picture book • Policy • Purpose • Recipe • Reference book • Resolution • Resource • Rhythm • Rising action • Satire • Speaker • Stanza • Thesaurus • Vocabulary
LARIT 171-180
• Uses picture dictionaries to gain understanding of unfamiliar words
• Identifies characteristics of a variety of literary forms and genres
• Identifies characteristics of fairy tales and of folk tales
• Identifies stories as "make-believe" (fiction)
• Identifies stories that could happen (nonfiction)
• Identifies characteristics of legends, fables, myths, poems, nursery rhymes, picture books, predictable books, and newspapers
• Identifies characteristics of a variety of informational texts
• Identifies characteristics of reference materials (e.g., atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia) • Recognizes the repetition of words that have the same ending sound (rhyme) in literary text • Identifies main characters in literary text using literal comprehension skills
• Recognizes who is telling the story (point of view) in literary text
• Examines setting, sequence of events, problem/conflict in literary text
• Assesses the author's purpose in informational text
• Main character • Make-believe • Newspaper • Nonfiction • Plot • Point of view • Science fiction • Setting • Tall tale
LARIT 161-170
• Uses picture dictionaries to gain understanding of unfamiliar words
• Identifies characteristics of a variety of literary forms and genres
• Identifies characteristics of folk tales, legends, fables, myths, poems, nursery rhymes, picture books, predictable books, and letters
• Identifies characteristics of a variety of informational texts
• Identifies characteristics of reference materials (e.g., atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia) • Recognizes who is telling the story (point of view) in literary text
• Examines setting , sequence of events, problem/conflict in literary text
• Dictionary • Fairy tale • Index • Note • Table of contents • Title page
LARIT Below 161
• Uses picture dictionaries to gain understanding of unfamiliar words
• Identifies characteristics of a variety of literary forms and genres
• Identifies characteristics of folk tales, legends, fables, myths, poems, nursery rhymes, picture books, and predictable books
• Identifies characteristics of a variety of informational texts • Recognizes who is telling the story (point of view) in literary text
• Examines setting, sequence of events, problem/conflict in literary text
• Advertisement • Business letter • Directions • Journal • Legend • List • Outline • Predict • Short story • Thank-you note
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