State curriculum standards addressed by Poetry Out Loud

Standard 1 – The student reads and comprehends text across the curriculum.

• Benchmark 1: The student uses skills in alphabetics to construct meaning from text.

• Benchmark 3: The student expands vocabulary.
  
  1.3.2 The student determines meaning of words or phrases using context clues from sentences or paragraphs.
  
  1.3.4 The student determines meaning of words through structural analysis.
  
  1.3.5 The student identifies and analyzes the use of figurative language, including similes, metaphors, analogies, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, idioms, imagery, and symbolism.
  
  1.3.6 The student discriminates between connotative and denotative meanings and interprets the connotative power of words. 

• Benchmark 4: The student comprehends a variety of texts (narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive).
  
  1.4.8 The student understands the purpose of text features and uses such features to locate information in and to gain meaning from appropriate-level texts.
  
  1.4.9 The student uses prior knowledge, content, and text types features to make, to revise, and to confirm predictions.
  
  1.4.10 The student generates and responds logically to literal, inferential, evaluative, synthesizing and critical thinking questions before, during, and after reading the text.
  
  1.4.11 The student uses information from the text to make inferences and draw conclusions.
  
  1.4.12 The student analyzes and evaluates how authors use text structure to help achieve their purposes.
  
  1.4.13 The student compares and contrast varying aspects in one or more appropriate-level texts.
  
  1.4.17 The student analyzes and evaluates how an author’s style works together to achieve his or her purpose for writing the text.
  
  1.4.19 The student follows directions presented in technical text.

Standard 2 – The student responds to a variety of texts.

• Benchmark 1: The student uses literary concepts to interpret and respond to text.
  
  2.1.22 The student identifies and describes different types of characters and analyzes the development of characters.
  
  2.1.23 The student analyzes the historical, social, and cultural contextual aspect of the setting and their influence on characters and events in the story or literary text.
  
  2.1.24 The student analyzes and evaluates how the author uses various plot elements to advance the plot and make connections between events.
  
  2.1.25 The student analyzes themes, tone, and the author’s point-of-view across a variety of literary works and genres using textual evidence and considering audience and purpose.
  
  2.1.26 The student identifies, analyzes, and evaluates the use of literary devices in a text.

• Benchmark 2: The student understands the significance of literature and its contributions to various cultures.
  
  2.2.27 The student recognizes ways that literature from different cultures presents similar themes differently across genres.
  
  2.2.28 The student compares and contrasts works of literature that deal with similar topics and problems.
  
  2.2.29 The student evaluates distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through a variety of texts.

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