Knowledge and Skills Statement
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.
Demonstrated Proficiency of ELA.1.9.A
This can be assessed by asking students to name the specific characteristics of a book that are unique to the genre while reading a text in a whole-group or small-group context.
Examples:
- Fable: A story that teaches a lesson and often has animals that talk
- Folktale: A story that is passed on through different families and cultures
- Fairy Tales: A story that begins with "once upon a time," has good and evil characters, and often has a happy ending
- Nursery Rhymes: A short poem or chant that typically has rhyming words