English Language Arts and Reading.7.6.B

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The student is expected to

write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing sources within and across genres;

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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.

Consider pairing SE 7.6.B with SE 7.9.E to assess both SEs at the same time. With SE 7.9.E, students identify the use of literary devices, including subjective and objective point of view. Task students with reading multiple texts on a related topic. Include texts that are written from both a subjective and an objective point of view. Have students compare the texts and write a response that identifies which texts are written from a subjective point of view and which texts are written from an objective point of view. Students should include how a different point of view affects the texts they are reading.
 

Further Explanation

This SE requires students to communicate in writing their understanding of the purpose, key ideas, and overall message of multiple texts. When students truly comprehend a text, they should be able to make reasonable connections to other sources that address the same ideas in similar or different ways.

Students should read and respond to a variety of diverse texts. As students engage with texts, they are expected to idenitfy similarities and differences between and among texts of the same genre (e.g., between two poems) as well as across different genres (e.g., informational vs. argumentative text).
Students should be able to communicate in writing their knowledge of a text's purpose, key ideas, overall messages, and impact on the reader. When students truly comprehend a text, they are able to make reasonable connections to other sources that address the same ideas in similar or different ways. These connections help students recognize the complexity of ideas and inform their own responses.