English Language Arts and Reading.8.9.C

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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.

Provide small groups with several texts that include print and graphic features. Task students with analyzing the print and graphic features in the texts. Have students discuss the purpose of each print or graphic feature and how they support comprehension of the overall text.

Notes:

  • Consider providing a list of print and graphic features for students to look for. The list might include print features, such as captions, subheadings, and bold print, and graphic features such as photographs, illustrations, timelines, and graphs.
  • A teacher may wish to provide a few texts for each pair so they can see a variety of different graphic features.


Further Explanation

For this SE students are expected to analyze how an author purposely uses print and graphic features to enhance the reader’s understanding of the text.

Students are expected to examine how an author purposely uses print features, such as captions and bold print, as well graphic features, such as photographs, to enhance the reader’s understanding of the text. For example, a captioned image can help a reader by creating visual context and supplementing the information in the main body of the text.
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://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ981296

Summary: This article presents an innovative approach to exploring literary devices by using comics. The study emphasizes 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 a Reading and English Language Arts 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 students' comprehension, interpretation, analysis and creation of the students' 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.