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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.

Provide students with a graphic organizer that includes labeled sections for the central idea and supporting details with some text examples. While reading an informational text, task students with using the information in the text as they complete the graphic organizer.

Further Explanation

For this assessment, students should be able to accurately identify supporting details from the text that support the central idea.

The message of an informational text is its central idea. The central idea can be clearly stated in the text or it may require that students make inferences. Authors may introduce hints, such as facts, details, or examples, about the message before stating the central idea.
a text that presents information to explain, clarify, and/or educate
Students are expected to have a clear idea of the specific attributes of informational text. For example, students should be able to identify the unique characteristics of informational text, such as a central idea, and graphic features, such as tables and timelines. Students should also recognize the way an informational text is structured or organized. For example, an author may choose to organize an article using a cause-and-effect approach to describe a particular topic.