Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.7.6
The Standard
Determine an author’s perspective and purpose in a text, and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Craft and Structure
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify what a writer believes and what the writer wants readers to think or do. They find another view in the text and explain how the writer sets it apart from their own.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can tell whether a writer aims to inform or persuade and point to a sentence that supports their answer. They can label someone else's view and show how the writer responds to it.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name the topic, such as school lunches, instead of the writer's purpose. They may mistake a quoted critic's view for the writer's own or overlook a contrast word like 'although.'
How to Assess It
- Post: 'Some say the library should close early to save money, but students need a quiet place after school, so keep it open.' Ask students to name the writer's view and purpose, the opposing view, and the word that signals the split.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Print a short article with two viewpoints; have pairs highlight the writer's claims in blue and other voices in yellow, then circle contrast words.
Post 'Some want uniforms, but students need choices'; ask who holds each view and what readers are meant to believe.
Put four cards on each desk: 'Keep recess,' 'Recess wastes time,' 'Yet breaks help focus,' and 'Critics want more class time'; pairs sort voices.
Show a student council flyer: 'Vote for longer lunch; some worry about schedules, but eating without rushing matters'; students label both positions.
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Related Standards
- RI.6.6
Determine an author's perspective and purpose in a text, and explain how it is conveyed in a text.
- RI.3.6
Distinguish their own perspective from that of the author of a text, and describe how various perspectives shape the content and style of a text.
- RL.7.6
Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the perspective of different characters or narrators in a text.
- RI.8.6
Determine an author's perspective and purpose in a text, and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
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