Language Arts/English Curriculum Frameworks - Albemarle County ...

Communication:
Author’s Purpose
Enduring Understandings
• Communication is making or conveying meaning.
• Language is intentional – a tool for processing and communicating
one’s ideas about the world.
• All reading and writing centers around audience and the desired
effect on that audience.
Essential Understandings
• Authors deliberately select a text structure that moves their
purpose forward and to convey meaning.
• Authors write to a specific audience.
• Authors craft their writing around a specific purpose.
• Readers interpret an author’s purpose based on structure,
language, and other literary devices the author used.
Essential Questions:
• How do authors use text structure to convey meaning
• How do pieces on the same topic vary in meaning because of the
structure used
• How does a reader determine the audience the author had in mind
while writing
• Why do authors use different literary devices
• How does a reader’s own biases impact the author’s message
9-12:
Evaluate the author’s use of structure
and literary devices to meet his
specific purpose. Read across text
structures and evaluate effectiveness
of each for a variety of audiences and
purposes. Write for a variety of
audiences and purposes, including
narration, information, research,
persuasion, direction, and business.
6-8:
Apply knowledge of text structures to
evaluate the author’s purpose and use
of structure to meet that purpose.
Identify literary devices used to create
an argument. Compare and contrast
topics across a variety of structures to
determine effectiveness. Write for a
variety of audiences and purposes,
including narration, information,
research, and persuasion.
3-5:
Identify features of a text and apply it
to the author’s purpose. Use text
features to aid in comprehension.
Identify the audience for a text. Write
for a variety of audiences and
purposes, including narration,
information, and persuasion.
K-2:
Identify the differences in narrative
and nonfiction text structures. Ask why
the author wrote the book or story.
Write for narrative and informational
purposes.
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