English Language Arts and Reading.8.9.F

The student is expected to

analyze how the author's use of language contributes to the mood, voice, and tone; and

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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 recognize how authors convey their own feelings toward a subject and create emotional environments in which readers can engage with the topic. Students should consider how certain words create patterns of emotion which help the reader understand the overall feelings the author is hoping to draw from the readers. For example, complex sentences containing humorous descriptions, hyperboles, or understatements are ways authors use language to create effects.
the atmosphere or feeling created by the writer in a literary work that can be expressed through literary elements, language, and genre characteristics such as imagery, word choice, setting, voice, theme, etc. (e.g., The mood evoked in Edgar Allan Poe’s work is often gloomy and ominous which is evident in his dark imagery.)
the reflection of an author’s or speaker’s particular attitude, either stated or implied, toward the subject
the distinctive way the writer expresses ideas with respect to style, form, content, purpose, etc.; the distinctive features of a person’s writing or speech patterns

Research

1. Rief, L. (2017). Student voices: What reading makes. Voices from the Middle. 24(4), 59–63. Retrieved from https://www.ncte.org/journals/vm/issues/v24-4

Summary: This article provides a detailed explanation about the integration between reading and writing. Rief focuses the study on four ideas: 1) What do students notice when they listen to a story?; 2) Which craft moves does the writer use? 3.) Do the craft moves impact the story; if so, how?;  and Which students borrow from the writer? The article includes a detailed chart that identifies the multiple strategies used by a writing.

2. Kinsey, B., & Comerchero, V. A. (2012). Language in style: Formal language and tone. Communique, 41(1), 37. Retrieved from https://www.nasponline.org/publications/periodicals/communique/issues/volume-41-issue-1

Summary: This one-pager that addresses how language and words imply assumptions, beliefs, and biases. The article provides examples of how word choice and the sequence of words significantly change the meaning and underlying questions posed by the use of language. The authors advocate that writing should be appropriate for its audience and the writing style generally should be formal.