AVReading February
As it is written, Common Core Standard #6 is perhaps the most difficult for students to grasp, and for teachers to teach. The standard asks students to “Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.” Again, this is a fairly significant shift from the old way of teaching reading. At most, we might ask students to determine the point of view or purpose of a text and provide evidence of that. In this era, readers are expected to not only identify the point of view or purpose of a text, but to explain how that point of view or purpose has shaped the text. Like Standard #5, it asks readers to consider an author’s choices. The difference is that for this standard, students have to explain an author’s choices in relationship to their purpose, which is much more specific than just their general choices. For many texts, this will be difficult, largely because either the purpose or point of view are difficul...