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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 8

Strand - Reading Informational Text

Cluster - Craft and Structure

[RI.8.6] - Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.

Resources:


  • Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
  • Point of view
    In the study of literary texts, the vantage point from which a story is told: for example, in the first-person point of view, the story is told by one of the characters, while in the third-person point of view, the story is told by someone outside the story. More broadly, point of view can refer to any position or perspective conveyed or represented by an author, narrator, speaker, or character.
  • Purpose
    See Text Types and Purposes.

Predecessor Standards:

  • RI.7.6
    Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.

Successor Standards:

  • RI.9-10.6
    Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.

Same Level Standards:

No Same Level Standards found.