Knowledge and Skills Statement
Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.
Demonstrated Proficiency of ELA.7.6.A
Have students respond to a single prompt or multiple prompts about the connections they are making to a text they are reading. Have students explain to a partner connections they have made and share the text that prompted the connections. Encourage partners to ask questions to further discussion of the text.
Possible questions to ask students:
- What does this text remind you of?
- Can you relate to the characters in the text?
- Does anything in this text remind you of anything in your own life?
- What does this remind you of in another book you have read?
- How is this text similar to other things you have read?
- How is this text different from other things you have read?
- What does this remind you of in the real world?
- How are events in this text similar to things that happen in the real world?
Further Explanation
This assessment directs students to demonstrate how they have interpreted the explicit and implied ideas expressed as they describe personal connections made while reading.
Supporting Information for ELA.7.6.A
Research
Dallacqua, A. L. (2012). Exploring literary devices in graphic novels. Language Arts, 89(6), 365–378. Retrieved from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ981296
Summary: This study examine how students engage in reading self-selected literature that uses visuals/graphics. The process includes intra mental reading. The study reveals that when students openly discuss the literature, mental cognition increases and students are able to make meaning from the text. The findings also reveal that students question the text, draw multiple interpretations of the meanings, and are able to create hypothetical scenarios.