ELAR 5.9

Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts. The student is expected to:

• (1) demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, legends, myths, and tall tales;
  • (A) explain the use of sound devices and figurative language and distinguish between the poet and the speaker in poems across a variety of poetic forms;
  • (B) explain structure in drama such as character tags, acts, scenes, and stage directions;
  • (C) recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including:
  • (D) the central idea with supporting evidence;
    • (i) features such as insets, timelines, and sidebars to support understanding; and
    • (ii) organizational patterns such as logical order and order of importance;
    • (iii) recognize characteristics and structures of argumentative text by:
  • (E) identifying the claim;
    • (i) explaining how the author has used facts for or against an argument; and
    • (ii) identifying the intended audience or reader; and
    • (iii) recognize characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.