Reading Informational Text
Virginia SOL 8.RI.2
Evaluate author's use of text features, analyze impact of stylistic choices, and understand author's perspective/purpose in informational texts.
What students need to be able to do
- Evaluating author's use of text features
- Understanding how text features enhance and support reader's comprehension
- Analyzing how author's word choice impacts meaning and credibility
- Analyzing how author's organizational pattern impacts meaning and credibility
- Analyzing how author's language structure impacts meaning and credibility
- Analyzing how author's viewpoints impact meaning and credibility
- Analyzing how author's qualifications impact meaning and credibility
- Analyzing how authors establish and convey perspective or purpose
- Understanding how authors acknowledge and respond to conflicting evidence or viewpoints