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Standard 3: Reading Applications: Informational, Technical, and Persuasive Text

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Benchmark

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A.  Evaluate how features and characteristics make information       accessible and usable and how structures help authors achieve       their purpose.

 

 

7.   Compare and contrast the effectiveness of the features (e.g.,       format, sequence, headers) used in various consumer       documents (e.g., warranties, product information, instructional       materials), functional or workplace documents (e.g., job-related       materials, memoranda, instructions) and public documents (e.g.,       speeches or newspaper editorials).

9.   Analyze the effectiveness of various literary devices to help       authors achieve their purpose.

 

B.  Identify examples of rhetorical devices and valid and invalid       inferences, and explain how authors use these devices to achieve       their purpose and reach their intended audiences.

 

 

 

1.   Identify and understand organizational patterns (e.g., cause-      effect, problem-solution) and techniques, including repetition of       ideas, syntax and word choice, that authors use to accomplish       their purpose and reach their intended audience.

4.   Assess the adequacy, accuracy and appropriateness of an       author’s details, identifying persuasive techniques (e.g.,       bandwagon, testimonial, transfer, glittering generalities,       emotional word repetition, bait and switch) and examples of       propaganda, bias and stereotyping.

8.   Identify the features of rhetorical devices used in common types       of public documents, including newspaper editorials and       speeches.

10.  Recognize the identifying factors of specific novel types       including fable, satire and allegory.

 

C.  Analyze how graphics may or may not supplement textual       information and promote the author’s purpose.

3.   Analyze information found in maps, charts, tables, graphs,       diagrams, cutaways and overlays.

 

D.  Explain and analyze how an author appeals to an audience and       develops an argument or viewpoint in text.

5.   Analyze an author’s implicit and explicit argument, perspective       or viewpoint in text.

6.   Analyze the author’s development of key points to support       argument or point of view.

 

E.   Utilize multiple sources pertaining to a singular topic to critique       the various ways authors develop their ideas (e.g., treatment,       scope and organization).

2.   Critique the treatment, scope and organization of ideas from       multiple sources on the same topic.

 

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