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Grade 5

3.3 Contrast the actions, motives (e.g., loyalty, selfishness, conscientiousness), and appearances of characters in a work of fiction and discuss the importance of the contrasts to the plot or theme.

1.4 Create simple documents by using electronic media and employing organizational features (e.g., passwords, entry and pull-down menus, word searches, a thesaurus, spell checks).

2.2 Write responses to literature:

a. Demonstrate an understanding of a literary work.

b. Support judgments through references to the text and to prior knowledge.

c. Develop interpretations that exhibit careful reading and understanding.

Grade 6

3.6 Identify and analyze features of themes conveyed through characters, actions, and images.

1.4 Use organizational features of electronic text (e.g., bulletin boards, databases, keyword searches, e-mail addresses) to locate information.

2.4 Write responses to literature:

a. Develop an interpretation exhibiting careful reading, understanding, and insight.

b. Organize the interpretation around several clear ideas, premises, or images.

c. Develop and justify the interpretation through sustained use of examples and textual evidence.

Grade 7

3.5 Contrast points of view (e.g., first and third person, limited and omniscient, subjective and objective) in narrative text and explain how they affect the overall theme of the work.

1.4 Identify topics; ask and evaluate questions; and develop ideas leading to inquiry, investigation, and research.

2.2 Write responses to literature:

a. Develop interpretations exhibiting careful reading, understanding, and insight.

b. Organize interpretations around several clear ideas, premises, or images from the literary work.

c. Justify interpretations through sustained use of examples and textual evidence.

Grade 8

3.6 Identify significant literary devices (e.g., metaphor, symbolism, dialect, irony) that define a writer?s style and use those elements to interpret the work.

1.5 Achieve an effective balance between researched information and original ideas.

2.2 Write responses to literature:

a. Exhibit careful reading and insight in their interpretations.

b. Connect the student?s own responses to the writer?s techniques and to specific textual references.

d. Support judgments through references to the text, other works, other authors, or to personal knowledge.