Use signal words (e.g., meanwhile, unlike, next) to identify common types of text structure (e.g., sequence, compare/contrast, cause/effect, description) within a text.
Clarifications:
Essential Understandings
- Identify an important part of the story (e.g., a sentence, event or scene).
- Identify signal words found within the text.
- Identify the structure of a section of text (e.g., chapter, scene or stanza).
- Sequence the major events from a story using signal words.
General Information
Number: LAFS.5.RL.2.AP.5a
Category: Access Points
Date Adopted or Revised:
06/14
Cluster:
Craft and Structure
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