Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.
A knowledge and skills statement is a broad statement of what students must know and be able to do. It generally begins with a learning strand and ends with the phrase “The student is expected to:” Knowledge and skills statements always include related student expectations.
Glossary Support for ELA.3.12
Author's craft refers to the tools and techniques a writer uses to compose text (e.g., voice, structure, style). Writers make intentional choices about their use of language, word choice, sentence structure, and organizational patterns.
to create a piece of writing such as a speech or a story
the type or class of a work, usually categorized by form, technique, or content
Literary genres include tragedy, comedy, poetry, novel, short story, creative/literary nonfiction, etc., and the sub genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, horror, satire, etc. Nonfiction genres include biography, essay, memoir, historical text, scientific text, academic reporting, etc.
Students are expected to apply the elements and techniques of various literary genres and the craft elements common to the construction of texts in those genres to their own writing. Students should be able to synthesize these structures and techniques in their own compositions to achieve specific purposes.
