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Planning to Teach: What to Do—and How
Craft and Structure
Reading Standards: Craft and Structure
Reading 4: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
Literature
6 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
7 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
8 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Informational Text
6 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
7 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
8 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Source: Copyright © 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. All rights reserved.
Common Core Reading Standard 4: What the Student Does
Literature
6 Gist: Figure out what words and phrases mean in context, taking into consideration both their figurative and connotative meanings, and how a specific word choice affects the meaning and tone of the text.Which words or phrases contribute the most to the meaning or tone of a text?Which words have different figurative or connotative meanings?How does the author’s choice of words affect the meaning and tone of the text?
7 Gist: Figure out what words and phrases mean in context, taking into consideration both their figurative and connotative meanings, and how rhyme and other repeated sounds (e.g., alliteration) affect a particular part (verse, stanza, or section) of a poem or story.Which words or phrases contribute the most to the meaning or tone of a text?Which words have different figurative or connotative meanings?How does the use of rhyme or other repeated sounds affect the poem or story?
8 Gist: Figure out what words and phrases mean in context, taking into consideration both their figurative and connotative meanings, and how the author’s use of specific words, analogies, or textual allusions affects the meaning or tone of the text.Which words or phrases contribute the most to the meaning or tone of a text?Which words have different figurative or connotative meanings?How does the author’s use of specific words, analogies, or allusions to other texts contribute to the meaning and tone?
Informational Text
6 Gist: Figure out what words and phrases mean in context, taking into consideration both their figurative and connotative meanings, as well as their specialized or disciplinary meaning.Which words or phrases contribute the most to the meaning or tone of a text?Which words have different figurative or connotative meanings?Which words are used according to their technical meaning in this context?
7 Gist: Figure out what words and phrases mean in context, taking into consideration their figurative, connotative, and technical meanings, and how specific word choices affect the meaning and tone.Which words or phrases contribute the most to the meaning or tone of a text?Which words have different figurative, connotative, and technical meanings?How does a specific word choice contribute to the meaning or tone?
8 Gist: Figure out what words and phrases mean in context, taking into consideration their figurative, connotative, and technical meanings, and how the author’s use of specific words, analogies, or allusions affects the meaning and tone of the text.Which words or phrases contribute the most to the meaning or tone of a text?Which words have different figurative, connotative, and technical meanings?How does a specific word choice contribute to the meaning or tone?
Reading Standards: Craft and Structure
Reading 4: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
History/Social Studies
6 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
7 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
8 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
Science/Technical Subjects
6 Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6–8 texts and topics.
7 Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6–8 texts and topics.
8 Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6–8 texts and topics.
Source: Copyright © 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. All rights reserved.
Common Core Reading Standard 4: What the Student Does
History/Social Studies
6 Gist: Figure out what words and phrases mean in context, noting also any discipline-specific terms used in history or social studies texts.Which words or phrases contribute most
