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4th Grade

Reading

  • Use a wide range of strategies and skills, including using sentence structure, locating information, and distinguishing fact from fiction, to comprehend fourth-grade informational and functional reading materials. (4)

    • Distinguishing fact from opinion in informational text
    • Detecting obvious bias in informational text
    • Recognizing persuasive techniques in informational text (Examples: bandwagon, snob appeal)

5th Grade

Reading

  • Recognize the use and effect of literary elements and devices, including setting, character traits, stated purpose, metaphors, and simple symbolism to gain information from various text formats, including tables and charts. (3)

    • Recognizing persuasive techniques

  • Use a wide range of strategies and skills, including using text features to gain meaning, summarizing passages, and drawing conclusions, to comprehend fifth-grade informational and functional reading materials. (4)

    • Determining cause and effect
    • Distinguishing fact from opinion
    • Recognizing persuasive techniques

6th Grade

Reading

  • Recognize the use of text elements, including implied main idea, explicit cause-effect relationships, and persuasive techniques, in sixth-grade informational and functional reading materials. (4)

Literature

  • Identify the author's purpose as entertainment, information, or persuasion in selected works. (6)

Oral & Visual Communication

  • Recognizing propaganda as an art of persuasion in evaluating content and purpose (17)

7th Grade

Literature

  • Interpret the author's message in various literary, informational, and functional texts. Examples: literary text—nonfiction, science fiction, suspense, fantasy, adventure informational and functional texts—laws, directions, newspapers, advertisements, Internet sources, pamphlets (7)

Oral & Visual Communications

  • Demonstrate listening skills, including identifying the main idea, detail, purpose, and bias in group discussions, public speeches, and media messages. (15)

8th Grade

Reading

  • Distinguishing fact from fiction to enhance understanding. Apply strategies appropriate to type of reading material, including making inferences to determine bias or theme and using specific context clues, to comprehend eighth-grade informational and functional reading materials. (1)

  • Distinguishing fact from opinion in informational reading materials. (4)

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