Northwest Evaluation Association Learning Continuum Release 1.0

Literary Response and Analysis - Students respond to stories based on well-know characters, themes, plots, and settings.

Skills and Concepts

RIT Scores between 151 and 160

Literary
· Infer the setting of a simple story by noting details that tell time or place
New Vocabulary: story

RIT Scores between 161 and 170

Literary
· Determine the author's purpose for simple forms of writing
· Determine the mood or tone of a simple passage
· Identify the problem in a story
Inference
· Infer actions, characteristics, emotions, or qualities of characters
New Vocabulary: passage, sentence, problem, sign, list, poem, fairy tale

RIT Scores between 171 and 180

Literary
· Determine how an author's words or techniques influence the reader's feelings
· Determine the author's purpose for writing in a 50-75 word selection
· Identify characters in a simple story
· Determine the mood or tone of a 50-75 word passage
· Identify the basic form of writing/genre selection
· Identify the format of poetry
· Identify the rhyming characteristics of poetry
· Infer the character's emotions
· Infer the setting by noting specific details
Inference
· Infer characteristics and qualities of main characters
Problem Resolution
· Identify the problem in a story
· Determine an appropriate resolution to a problem
Compare-contrast
· Compare and/or contrast people in a passage
· Compare and/or contrast events and details of a story
New Vocabulary: describe, missing word, paragraph, author's purpose, ad, letter, fable, report

RIT Scores between 181 and 190

Literary
· Determine author's point of view
· Determine point of view of main characters
· Determine main characters and quality of each character
· Determine how author develops characters through word choice and story sequence
· Determine word choice that develops mood
· Organization of paragraph by location, main idea, and sequence of events
· Recognize personal note writing
· Distinguish between fantasy and realistic fiction
· Identify realistic fiction
· Read for details in folk tales
· Distinguish between descriptive and realistic writing
· Understand the characteristics of legends and myths
· Understand poem structure
· Understand the meaning of a metaphor used in a story
· Identify use of simile in a writing, not by name
· Identify problem and its resolution
· Identify setting-where, and when
· Identify theme or moral in a multi-paragraph passage
Inference
· Make inferences from a variety of personal narratives
· Make inferences from a fable
· Make inferences about characters in a variety of literature
· Infer who is the narrator
· Make inferences from poetry
· Make inferences from riddles
Problem Resolution
· Identify how to resolve problem
Compare-contrast
· Compare and contrast characters, both major and minor characters
New Vocabulary: theme, action, setting, predict, author, solve, purpose, make-believe, mood, point of view, tone, moral, character, legend, fantasy, diary, note

RIT Scores between 191 and 200

Literary
· Use imagery, humor, rhymes to develop interest
· Use first person and word choice to hold reader's attention
· Use of devices by author such as word choice to create mood
· Determine author's strategy for creating the piece of writing
· Determine point of view of various characters
· Draw complex conclusions about characters
· Infer how author developed characters through word choice, story sequence
· Determine word choice to develop mood and voice
· Recognize personal narrative
· Distinguish between fiction and nonfiction writing
· Analyze and gain understanding of legends
· Recognize elements of foreshadowing
· Understand meaning of idiom used in the story
· Identify realistic elements vs. nonrealistic parts in a story
· Identify an onomatopoeia element in the story
· Identify the problem and the resolution within a long passage
· Identify setting-where, when, from the descriptors within the passage
· Identify major and minor themes of the passage
· Identify humor and reason for its use
Inference
· Make inferences from personal narratives within the context of the story
· Make inferences about directionality
· Make inferences about characters from a variety of literature
· Infer who is narrator by the descriptors of the story
· Make inferences from different types of poetry
New Vocabulary: fiction, subject, event, conflict, appeal, narrator, main point, main character, detail, solution, short story, folktale

RIT Scores between 201 and 210

Literary
· Use devices such as humor, exaggeration, word choice to create mood
· Use devices by the author such as word choice and complex descriptors
· Determine the complex point of view of the author or characters through character descriptions
· Infer how author develops characters through story sequence
· Infer the story structure as a literary device
· Determine purpose of dialogue
· Recognize newspaper writing, and personal note writing
· Identify historical fiction
· Distinguish between fiction and nonfiction writing in lengthy passages
· Identify realistic fiction
· Determine purpose of lengthy folk tales
· Understand the content of poems with figurative language
· Recognize elements of a fable
· Recognize the use of suspense to get the reader's interest
· Understand meaning of idioms used in the story
· Understand the imagery in the writing
· Understand and explain the meaning of metaphors used in the story
· Understand the meaning of symbolism in stories
· Identify the problem and articulate the resolution
· Identify main conflict
· Identify exaggeration
Inference
· Make inferences about a character type within a variety of literature
Problem Resolution
· Identify a complex problem and list possible resolutions
New Vocabulary: application, opinion, plot, exaggeration, speaker, science fiction, personal narrative, autobiography, historical fiction, non-fiction, mythology

RIT Scores between 211 and 220

Literary
· Use figurative language, sequence of events, word choice, suspense, imagery that creates complex interest
· Describe complex character descriptions
· Determine how author develops character traits through inference
· Use descriptive dialogue to develop tone
· Use the story structure as a literary device
· Recognize dialogue that provides a variety of purposes and information
· Recognize autobiographical writing
· Use writing as a rule for giving directions
· Understand form and general characteristics of folk tales
· Identify vivid and descriptive writing
· Understand the structure of poetry by its rhyme and length of lines
· Recognize science fiction
· Recognize a book review
· Recognize foreshadowing as a literary device in writing
· Find a figure of speech and explain
· Understand the author's purpose in use of similes
· Understand the meaning of symbolism in stories
· Identify exaggeration and understand its impact on story line
Problem Resolution
· Understand complex problems and develop one or more solutions
New Vocabulary: intent, irony, suspense, simile, figure of speech, dialogue, metaphor

RIT Scores above 221

Items include same skills and content as above with more difficult vocabulary and extended thinking.
New Vocabulary: personification, alliteration, method of characterization, flashback, literary device, narration, exposition, memoir