HS French Instructional Guide

* Additional ideas for instructional practices can be found in the resource Ideas for Progress in College and Career Readiness on the ACT website. Work with students to build vocabulary and word knowledge, including Tier II vocabulary, through building an understanding of how to use context clues. ● Help students build Tier III vocabulary through word study and reading several texts on the same topic or idea. ● Have students predict how changes to the wording of a text might convey a different tone or attitude. • Provide examples of text where structure contributes to meaning: For example, have students read a graphic novel and contrast its structure and its impact on meaning to the structure of a traditional text about the same event or topic. • Have students analyze the relationship between an author’s or narrator’s intended message and the rhetorical devices used to convey that message. ●

Craft and Structure Questions in this category test students’ ability to determine the meaning of words and phrases; analyze author’s word choice; analyze text structure; and analyze the author’s purpose and perspective.

WME 401 Analyze how the choice of a specific word or phrase shapes meaning or tone in somewhat challenging passages WME 402 Interpret most words and phrases as they are used in somewhat challenging passages, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings TST 401 Analyze how one or more sentences in somewhat challenging passages relate to the whole passage TST 505 Analyze the overall structure of more challenging passages PPV 501 Infer a purpose in somewhat challenging passages and how that purpose shapes content and style

6.RI.4, 7.RI.4, 8.RI.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts. 6.RL.5 Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot. 7.RI.5 Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas. 8.RI.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.

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