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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances.

Read multiple texts with students and ask students to examine who is speaking or telling the story and how it helps the reader determine if the text is written in first- or third-person Have students read two texts with a partner and determine which text is written in first-person and which is in third-person.

Further Explanation

This assessment example requires students to understand that an author may choose to write in first-person when the author wants the reader to experience the plot through the main character’s point of view or third-person when the author wants the reader to experience the plot through the narrator’s point of view.

a narrative perspective restricted to that of the author/narrator’s thoughts and feelings as the central character and point of view in the story First-person point of view requires the use of first-person pronouns such as I, me, my, or us.
Literary devices are specific language techniques that convey meaning and bring clarity to a text. Students should be able to recognize and describe how an author uses literary devices, such as point of view and figurative language, to tell a story or communicate a message. For example, authors may write in third-person point of view when they want the reader to experience the plot through a minor character’s viewpoint.
a narrative perspective that includes the thoughts and feelings of one (third person limited) or more of the characters/people (third person omniscient) in a story or text and uses third-person pronouns such as he, she, or they