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.2.9.D.iii
Ask students to identify the organizational patterns that are used while reading a text in a whole-group or small-group context.
Examples:
- What organizational pattern did the author use in the book and why would he or she have chosen that?
- Do you think this book uses chronological order or cause and effect?
- I see a lot of words and phrases like next and finally. What organizational pattern is the author using and why do you think the author is using that pattern?