English Language Arts and Reading.5.10.C

The student is expected to

analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;

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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.

to detect how the component parts of a passage or text relate to one another and aid understanding This may include identifying the parts, studying the relationship among parts, and recognizing the organizational principles involved. Learning outcomes present a higher intellectual level than comprehension and application because they require an understanding of both the content and structural form of the material.
Students are expected to examine in detail how authors purposely use print features, such as captions and bold print, as well graphic features, such as photographs, for a variety of reasons. For example, authors of informational texts often include subheadings which help organize information into more manageable parts for readers. Likewise, visual aids can help readers by illustrating a difficult concept or by supplementing the information in the main body of the text.
a picture, visual aid, or other image within a text used to support the author’s purpose and message
the use of words to explain something in the text (e.g., titles, bold print, captions)

Research

1. Dallacqua, A.K. (2012). Exploring literary devices in graphic novels. Language Arts, 89(6), 365–378. Retrieved from https://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/LA/0896-jul2012/LA0896Exploring.pdf

Summary: Dallacqua presents an innovative approach to exploring literary devices by using comics. The study emphasized the importance of multimodality, especially as it related to visual literacy. Multiple online resources and definitions are included. The article includes the multiple uses of graphic novels as part of an RELA class.

2. Pantaeo, S. (2015). Language, literacy and visual texts. English in Education, 49(2). doi:10.1111/eie.12053

Summary: This study examines the use of visual design and images on the student's comprehension, interpretation, analysis and creation of the student's own images. This article is based on multimodality, specifically visual literacy. The teacher examines the students response to visual elements of art and design and use the text-based responses to the images.