COG+211-220


 * Skill: Describe Characteristics of Genres**


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 * RIT Range: 211-220**

• Uses reference materials to determine meaning and pronunciation of words (e.g., glossary, dictionary, thesaurus) • Recognizes characteristics of magazines, editorials, news stories, and essays • Distinguishes among nonfiction literary forms • Identifies literary text as a myth • Identifies common characteristics of poems • Identifies characteristics of fables, of a fantasy and of historical fiction • Identifies literary texts as biographies and autobiographies and as folk tales • Identifies common characteristics of adventure stories • Identifies literary texts as plays • Identifies characteristics of primary and secondary source historical documents • Recognizes characteristics of advertisements • Differentiates among the various forms of informational text • Recognizes characteristics of periodicals, bus routes, technical directions, business letters, procedures, directions, catalogs, and textbooks • Identifies and uses text organizers in informational text (e.g., table of contents, charts, glossary)
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