1.10
Knowledge and Skills Statement (Standard Cluster)
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.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading
Cluster contents
Student Expectations in This Statement
1.10 is a knowledge and skills statement. These are the student expectations under it.
- 1.10.A
discuss the author's purpose for writing text
- 1.10.B
discuss how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose
- 1.10.C
discuss with adult assistance the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes
- 1.10.D
discuss how the author uses words that help the reader visualize
- 1.10.E
listen to and experience first- and third-person texts.
Teacher's field guide
What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students decide whether a text aims to teach, entertain, or persuade, then point to clues that support their choice. They notice how order, headings, pictures, labels, and word choice guide the reader. They also tell whether the speaker uses “I” or talks about another person.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students name the likely purpose and support it with details from the words, organization, or page features. They explain how one word or feature helps readers picture or understand something. They can tell whether the speaker uses “I” or talks about someone else.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume every story is written only to entertain or that every nonfiction text is written only to teach. They may confuse the author with the narrator, or name a picture, heading, or vivid word without explaining what it helps the reader understand.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short text with a title and picture. Ask, “Why did the author write this, what two clues support your answer, and who is telling it?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sentence strips from a short how-to text to order, then have them add a heading and picture that support its purpose.
Read a page aloud and ask, “What do you picture, and which exact words created that picture in your mind?”
Play Purpose Detective by sorting text cards into teach, entertain, or persuade groups and requiring one clue for each choice.
Examine a cereal box and discuss how the words, pictures, labels, and layout try to inform or persuade shoppers.
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