Teacher
Class/Level: Pre-GED, GLE 6-8.9
Competencies/Skills / Taught / Learning / Mastered / Comments
Identify/describe character(s), setting, significant changes in character or setting, or action
Identify literary devices as appropriate to genre (i.e., rhyme, scheme, simile, flashback, foreshadowing, hyperbole, personification)
Paraphrase or summarize the plot when chronology is evident or when more complex sequential cues are used
Describe/compare characterizations (e.g., stereotypes) and motivations within a text, using examples of thoughts, words, actions or interactions
Make logical predictions or inferences about characters, conflicts, or the interactions of elements (e.g., how the setting influences plot development) and provide textual evidenceIdentify the author’s message or theme and explain how it is developed in the text
Identify universal ideas and themes (e.g., self vs. self; self vs. other; self vs. nature)
Explain why a literary device is used in the text (i.e., rhyme scheme emphasizes fantasy or humor; simile helps reader to visualize movement, etc.)
Compare and contrast changes in the tone/mood within a passage (e.g., the atmosphere changed from tranquility to suspense) and support using textual evidenceUse facts, details, or ideas from text to answer questions (e.g., summarize key ideas and supporting details in a T-chart)
Paraphrase or summarize major events/key ideas
Organize key ideas in the text to show relationships between and among them (e.g., cause/effect, similarities and differences)
Identify the stated or implied main idea of individual paragraphs in a selection
Identify the overall implied or stated main idea of a selection
Identify author’s purpose (e.g., to entertain, persuade, inform) and provide evidence form the text that supports the purpose or explains the intended effect
Synthesize information within or across texts (e.g., construct appropriate title, contrast author’s assertions)
Identify language used to influence the reader’s opinions and actions
Distinguish facts from opinions and identify possible author bias
Explain how a reader might check the accuracy of information presented
Explain the intended effect of persuasive facts and opinions used in influence a reader
Identify multiple effects from a given cause, or vice versa, providing evidence from the text to support explanations
Make and support predictions, inferences, or conclusions with textual evidence
Explain why a literary device is used in the text (i.e., simile helps reader to visualize similarities; foreshadowing creates sense of impending doom, etc.)
Explain how the author’s organization of text and use of language supports the purpose and intent (e.g., puns, understatement, symbolism, etc.)
Identify the author’s techniques that set the tone/mood (e.g., literary devices, figurative language, length and flow of sentences, author’s feeling toward his topic and his purpose for writing, and choice of words)