English Language Arts and Reading.K.9.E

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The student is expected to

listen to and experience first- and third-person texts.

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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.

Use a checklist or anecdotal notes during whole-group, small-group, or one-on-one conferences to document whether students listen to and experience first- and third-person texts.

An observational rubric can be used.

Sample rubric:
1) The student does not listen to and experience first- and third-person texts, even with adult assistance.
2) The student inconsistently listens to and experiences first- and third-person texts, with adult assistance.
3) The student consistently listens to and experiences first- and third-person texts, with adult assistance.
4) The student consistently listens to and experiences first- and third-person texts, independently.

First-person is a narrative perspective restricted to that of the author/narrator’s thoughts and feelings as the central character and point of view in the story; it uses first-person pronouns such as I, me, my, and us.
Third-person is a narrative perspective that includes the thoughts and feelings of one (third-person limited) or more of the characters/people (third-person omniscient) in a story or text and uses the third-person pronouns he, she, they, etc.