NY Next Generation ELA 3R7
The Standard
Explain how specific illustrations or text features contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a text (e.g., create mood, emphasize character or setting, or determine where, when, why, and how key events occur).
New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how illustrations or text features add meaning beyond the words. They analyze contributions to mood, character, setting, or information about where, when, why, and how events occur.
What Mastery Looks Like
- The student identifies a precise visual or feature detail and explains its contribution. The response connects the added information to the passage rather than merely describing it.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat pictures as decoration or repeat a caption. They may claim a mood or detail that the visual evidence does not support.
How to Assess It
- Give an illustrated or feature-rich page. Ask students to explain one contribution the visual element makes to mood, character, setting, or event understanding.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Cover and reveal an illustration or feature, then chart what becomes clearer after the reveal.
Ask students how one visual detail changes the mood or understanding of an event.
Play Contribution Match with visuals, text features, and their effects.
Use a timeline or diagram to explain when, why, or how a real event happened.
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Related Standards
- 1R7
Use illustrations and details in literary and informational texts to discuss story elements and/or topics.
- KR7
Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text.
- 2R6
Identify examples of how illustrations, text features, and details support the point of view or purpose of the text.
- 1R6
Describe how illustrations and details support the point of view or purpose of the text.
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