Florida B.E.S.T. ELA.7.R.3.3
The Standard
Compare and contrast how authors with differing perspectives address the same or related topics or themes.
Florida B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify each author’s viewpoint on a shared issue or theme. They compare how the authors use claims, details, tone, and evidence to shape their treatment of it.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can clearly state each author’s perspective and identify meaningful similarities and differences. They use evidence from both texts to explain how tone, details, or claims reveal each viewpoint.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may summarize each text without making direct comparisons. They may confuse perspective with topic, or cite differences in format rather than differences in viewpoint, emphasis, or evidence.
How to Assess It
- Give students two short editorials on school uniforms. Ask: "State each author’s perspective, then explain one key difference using evidence from both texts."
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs two printed articles on homework, then have them color-code each author’s claims, evidence, tone words, and omitted details.
Ask students to write: "Which author presents the issue more fairly, and what specific choices support your judgment?"
Play Perspective Match by having teams pair anonymous quotations with author viewpoint cards and defend each match using wording from the quotation.
Compare two news reports about the same local event, noting which facts, voices, and images each source emphasizes or leaves out.
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