La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § XI-9336

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

Section XI-9336 - Reading Literature

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

B. Use specific details from the text (e.g., words, interactions, thoughts, motivations) to support inferences or conclusions about characters including how they change during the course of the story.

C. Use the specific details from the text to support inferences and explanations about plot development.

D. Select key details about a character and relate those details to a theme within the text.

E. Determine the theme(s) of a story, drama, or poem including how it is conveyed through particular details.

F. Summarize a text from beginning to end in a few sentences without including personal opinions.

G. Describe how the plot unfolds in a story.

H. Analyze a character's interactions throughout a story as they relate to conflict and resolution.

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

J. Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.

K. Determine the narrative point of view.

L. Identify and describe how the narrative point of view influences the reader's interpretation.

M. Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.

N. Compare the experience of reading a story or drama to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text.

O. Compare texts from different genres that have a similar theme or address the same topic.

P. Read or be read to a variety of literary texts or adapted texts, including historical novels, fantasy stories and novels, poetry, and fiction.

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-9336

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 43904 (5/1/2017).

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