RL.LCS.12.2

Description: Analyze and critique how the author uses structures in print and multimedia texts to shape meaning and impact the reader. Recognize characteristics of crafted text structures such as diary, seesaw texts, and circular texts.
Maps to Reading Plus skills: 5A

Exemplars

5A: Examining Text Structure

5A: Examining Text Structure

Description: Examining Text Structure

SeeReader
✓ standard met

Selection: HiB-23

HiB-23

Grade level: 2
Word count: 1133 words
Author: L. Frank Baum
Synopsis: Dorothy is in for a most unusual ride.
Excerpt: When Aunt Em came there to live she was a young, pretty wife. The sun and wind had changed her, too. They had taken the sparkle from her eyes. They turned her eyes a serious gray. They had taken the red from her cheeks and lips. They were gray also. She was thin and gaunt, and never smiled now.

Uncle Henry never laughed. He was gray also, from his long beard to his rough boots. He looked stern and solemn. He rarely spoke.

Question: Based on this excerpt, the color gray is repeated to give the idea that Aunt Em and Uncle Henry are
  1. serious.
  2. happy.
  3. confused.
  4. energetic.

Writing
✓ standard met

Writing prompt: Why would an author choose to tell a story that does not follow chronological order? Use an example from a fictional story you have read to support your argument.

Evaluator

Organization: Certica Solutions