English Language Arts and Reading.7.9

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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. The student is expected to:

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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.
Students are expected to think critically about a text to learn more about the author’s purpose. Through careful questioning and examination of the techniques employed by an author, such as imagery or structure, students should be able to draw conclusions about the reasons for the author’s approach.
Students not only examine and understand a variety of elements of author’s craft, such as figurative language, voice, and use of language, but they also learn to think about and apply these techniques over time in their own writing to achieve specific purposes. For example, students may analyze how the use of point of view by an author helps convey a message. Students may then use point of view intentionally when producing their own original writing.
the intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, sentence structures, devices, and language to create an effective written work Author’s craft may vary by genre.
the process of arriving at a judgment of the worth of a text by examining the extent to which its content, form, and style achieve the author’s desired purpose