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1 Reading Standard 6.c - Level 6
2 Standard in Kid Friendly Terms
3 Standard Unwrapped
4 Instructional Strategies
5 Assessment Strategies
6 Resources
7 Projects and Activities

Reading Standard 6.c - Level 6

Use knowledge of literary techniques and literary terminology (for example, dialogue, scene, flashback, and figurative language) to understand text.

Standard in Kid Friendly Terms

Standard Unwrapped

KNOW Students understand the characteristics of each literary device, and can explain how each is used to create descriptions and mind movies in texts and builds a clearer understanding of the images and feelings that a writer is trying to communicate.

ABLE TO DO A student should be able to identify and recognize literary devices in various texts. For similes and metaphors the student should be able to identify what two things are being compared and what characteristics these things have in common. A student should be able to create his/her own examples of these literary devices in isolation, and in writing compositions.

Instructional Strategies

Level 6 targeted treasure hunt featuring literary techniques:The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Vocabulary: When students review vocabulary with their partners, encourage them to label the vocabulary word definitons as similes and metaphors.

Listening Comprehension: Discuss examples of alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia, personification, simile and metaphor.

Assessment Strategies

(Taken from SBA Reading Grade 6 Practice Test)

7. Which pair of words from the passage are homophones? a. by and buy b. farm and harvest c. bauble and trinket d. youngest and oldest

8. Read the sentence from the passage. "It tumbled through their fingers like pebbles in a landslide." This sentence contains an example of which literary device? a. rhyme b. alliteration c. simile d. personification