Reading+Learning+Targets


 * READING TARGETS **
 * ** Freshman ** || ** Sophomore ** || ** Junior ** || ** Senior ** ||
 * Target 1: Reading Strategies
 * I am aware of active reading strategies including how to: summarize, paraphrase, predict, formulate opinions, make connections, analyze author’s craft, ask questions.


 * I can adapt reading strategies to match different types of writing. || Target 1: Reading Strategies
 * I can independently select and use active reading strategies that meet the needs or demands of the text and my own learning style. || Target 1: Reading Strategies
 * I can independently select and use active reading strategies that meet the needs or demands of the text and my own learning style. || Target 1: Reading Strategies
 * I can independently select and use active reading strategies that meet the needs or demands of the text and my own learning style. ||
 * Target 2: Craft and Structure
 * I can identify the structural elements of fiction, including plot, setting, character and point of view.
 * I can identify figurative language, including metaphor, simile, symbol, and personification. || Target 2: Craft and Structure
 * I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text including figurative and connotative meanings.
 * I can analyze the impact the impact of meaning and tone.
 * I can determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
 * I can identify archetypal patterns. || Target 2: Craft and Structure
 * I can understand an author’s stylistic choices and how these choices contribute to the overall meaning of the text. || Target 2: Craft and Structure
 * I can identify persuasive techniques in communication
 * I can identify persuasive techniques such as logical, emotional, and credibility appeals within a cultural context for a specific audience.
 * I can analyze for tone and diction. ||
 * Target 3: Making Meaning
 * I can make inferences about characters based on an author’s description.
 * I can identify and explain the major these of a work. || Target 3: Making Meaning
 * I can identify and explain the major themes of a work
 * I can make connections between one work of literature and another, and between a work of literature and other disciplines
 * I can make personal connections that are raised by a work of literature and use them to think about my beliefs and values. || Target 3:Making Meaning
 * I can make thematic associations within text, from other texts, and from personal experience.
 * I can read literary criticism to understand and evaluate different interpretations of a text. || Target 3: Making Meaning
 * I can critically discern a writer’s bias and style.
 * I can independently name and analyze multiple themes.
 * I can critically discern cultural complexities
 * I can critically discern my bias as a reader and how this impacts my response and understanding. ||