Reading Informational Text
Virginia SOL 11.RI.2
Examine craft and style in informational texts.
What students need to be able to do
- Examine how textual elements and organizational patterns contribute to meaning and author's purpose.
- Analyze and interpret key terms and ideas in historical, scientific, technical, and employment texts.
- Recognize and analyze the author's purpose and impact of ambiguity, contradiction, paradox, oxymoron, irony, sarcasm, overstatement, and understatement.