TEKS Talk - SLA Authors Purpose image

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.

Deles a los estudiantes un texto en el cual el autor utiliza el punto de vista de la primera persona. Deles la tarea de que identifiquen y expliquen el punto de vista de la historia y que den ejemplos específicos sacados del texto que muestren el punto de vista de la primera persona. Anime a los estudiantes para que digan qué han aprendido de algún personaje a partir del punto de vista de la primera persona. Sus comentarios serán variados, pero deben incluir que han aprendido algún aspecto particular del personaje, como su forma de pensar y sentir.


Further Explanation

Esta evaluación permite que los estudiantes reconozcan que el autor está usando el punto de vista de la primera persona y que expliquen cómo lo saben. Los estudiantes deben también comprender y explicar que, al usar el punto de vista de la primera persona, el autor le permite al lector conocer mejor a un personaje particular de la historia. Es importante que los estudiantes desarrollen su conocimiento de una variedad de recursos literarios. De esa forma, esta actividad podría completarse haciendo uso de ellos.

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 First-person point of view requires the use of first-person pronouns such as I, me, my, or us.
a specific convention of language or tool (e.g., repetition, alliteration, figurative language, foreshadowing, irony) employed by the author to produce a specific effect or communicate a particular detail or message
the perspective from which the events in the story are told
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 third-person pronouns such as he, she, or they
Literary devices are specific language techniques that convey meaning and bring clarity to a text. Students should be able to understand that authors use literary devices such as repetition, alliteration, figurative language, foreshadowing, irony, or metaphor to produce a given effect on the reader and to communicate a particular detail or message. For example, an author may want to choose a metaphor to emphasize the attributes of a character in a story. When the author uses a sentence like, “Ivan was a rabbit on the basketball court!” the author implies that Ivan was playing fast and agile, much like rabbits move.

Research

1. Dallacqua, A.K. (2012). Exploring literary devices in graphic novels. Language Arts, 89(6), 365–378. Retrieved from https://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/LA/0896-jul2012/LA0896Exploring.pdf

Summary: Dallacqua presents an innovative approach to exploring literary devices by using comics. The study emphasized 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 an RELA class.