Grade 4 » Author's purpose and craft

Description: Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

Author's purpose and craft

Description: The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances.

4.10.A

Description: Explain the author's purpose and message within a text.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.10.B

Description: Explain how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader

4.10.C

Description: Analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.10.D

Description: Describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile and metaphor, and sound devices such as alliteration and assonance achieves specific purposes.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

4.10.E

Description: Identify and understand the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts