AVReading Newsletter November
Analyzing Dynamic Texts We continue our examination of the Common Core State Standards this year, by looking at the third anchor standard which asks students to “analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.” Again, you will probably observe that this is certainly a different approach to reading or examining a text, at least in comparison to our former model of reading which focused more simply on understanding main idea, inference, and evaluating credibility. For anchor standard three, students are asked to consider the text as a whole, to consider how things change over the duration of that text. For literature, this means that readers will have to look at how a given character develops or transforms over the course of a story. Of course, it assumes that at least one of the characters is actually dynamic, meaning they evolve or change, which is generally true of the ...