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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 7

Strand - Reading Informational Text

Cluster - Craft and Structure

[RI.7.6] - Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.

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  • Analysis (Analyze)
    In general, a careful examination of the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another; in language arts, a study of how words, sentences, paragraphs, stanzas, or sections of a text affect its meaning.
  • Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
  • Point of view
    In the study of literary texts, the vantage point from which a story is told: for example, in the first-person point of view, the story is told by one of the characters, while in the third-person point of view, the story is told by someone outside the story. More broadly, point of view can refer to any position or perspective conveyed or represented by an author, narrator, speaker, or character.
  • Purpose
    See Text Types and Purposes.

Predecessor Standards:

  • RI.6.6
    Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.

Successor Standards:

  • RI.8.6
    Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.

Same Level Standards:

No Same Level Standards found.