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Literature: Key Ideas and Details

Key ideas and details: In literature, understand explicitly stated ideas; cite textual evidence, make and support inferences and conclusions; determine central ideas or themes, retell and summarize with key supporting details and ideas; analyze development and interaction of individuals, events and ideas; compare and contrast themes and characters within and across texts from diverse cultures; identify and describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Literature: Craft and Structure

Craft and structure: In literature, analyze how word choice (word sounds [rhyme, alliteration]; analogies; allusion; multiple-meaning words; fresh, engaging, or beautiful language) shapes meaning or tone; analyze text structure, including the relationship of parts to each other and to the whole, the ordering of events, and devices such as flashback and foreshadowing; analyze point of view and purpose; integrate information from illustrations with information in the text; analyze how two texts address similar themes or topic in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.

Information on this page comes from documentation provided by Northwest Education Association (NWEA)