7.9.E
The Standard
identify the use of literary devices, including subjective and objective point of view
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading · Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students decide whether a writer presents information subjectively or objectively. They use details such as opinions, feelings, judgments, facts, and neutral wording as evidence.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students correctly label a passage as subjective or objective. They point to specific words, facts, opinions, feelings, or judgments that support the label.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse objective point of view with third person and subjective point of view with first person. They may also label any factual-sounding sentence as objective, even when loaded words reveal judgment.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short paragraph with both facts and opinions. Ask, “Is the point of view subjective or objective? Underline two details that prove your answer.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs two accounts of one event and colored highlighters to mark facts, feelings, opinions, and loaded words.
Ask students to explain how a school event would sound different in a news report and a personal journal entry.
Play Point of View Sort by having teams classify passage cards as subjective or objective and defend each choice.
Compare a restaurant review with its menu description, then list details showing which text is subjective and which is objective.
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Related Standards
- 5.10.E
identify and understand the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view;
- 6.9.E
identify the use of literary devices, including omniscient and limited point of view, to achieve a specific purpose;
- 3.10.E
identify the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view;
- 4.10.E
identify and understand the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view;
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