3.9

3.9 is a knowledge and skills statement. These are the student expectations under it.

• 3.9.A

  demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, fairy tales, legends, and myths

• 3.9.B

  explain rhyme scheme, sound devices, and structural elements such as stanzas in a variety of poems

• 3.9.C

  discuss elements of drama such as characters, dialogue, setting, and acts

• 3.9.D.i

  the central idea with supporting evidence

• 3.9.D.ii

  features such as sections, tables, graphs, timelines, bullets, numbers, and bold and italicized font to support understanding

• 3.9.D.iii

  organizational patterns such as cause and effect and problem and solution

• 3.9.E.i

  identifying the claim

• 3.9.E.ii

  distinguishing facts from opinion

• 3.9.E.iii

  identifying the intended audience or reader

• 3.9.F

  recognize characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students identify how traditional stories, poems, dramas, informational texts, arguments, and digital texts are built. They use plot patterns, sound devices, stanzas, dialogue, text features, organization, claims, facts, opinions, and audience to explain purpose. They compare these features across texts.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given an unfamiliar text, a student names its genre and points to two features that support the choice. The student explains poetic structure, drama elements, informational organization, or an argument’s claim, facts, opinions, and audience. The student also explains how visual and digital features shape meaning.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students often name a genre from the topic alone rather than from its structure and features. They may confuse a central idea with one detail, a claim with a fact, or rhyme with rhyme scheme. They also overlook how headings, graphs, dialogue, stanzas, images, and links guide meaning.

04

How to Assess It

Give students one short poem and one short informational or argumentative text. Ask them to label each genre, circle two clues, and write the prose text’s central idea or claim with one supporting detail.

1. 01

   Give groups excerpt cards and feature labels, then have them sort folktale, poem, drama, informational, argumentative, and digital examples and defend each match.

2. 02

   Ask students to compare two texts on the same topic: How do their structures, features, and purposes change what readers learn?

3. 03

   Play Genre Clue Relay: teams draw a clue, name the matching genre or text structure, and cite evidence from a classroom text.

4. 04

   Examine a weather webpage, identify its text features and intended audience, then explain how the graph, headings, and images aid understanding.

• K.8

  The Kindergarten version of this standard.

• 2.9

  The 2nd Grade version of this standard.

• 8.8

  The 8th Grade version of this standard.

• 6.8

  The 6th Grade version of this standard.