Performance Indicator - ELA.4.R.3.A:
Students evaluate the content by identifying:

• the author's purpose
• whether events, actions, characters, and/or settings are realistic
• important and unimportant details
• statements of fact, opinion, and exaggeration, with assistance
• recurring themes across works in print and media

Performance Indicator - ELA.4.R.3.B:
Students compare and contrast characters, plot, and setting in literary works.

Performance Indicator - ELA.4.R.3.C:
Students analyze ideas and information on the basis of prior knowledge and personal experience.

Performance Indicator - ELA.4.R.3.D:
Students recognize how language and illustrations are used to persuade in printed and filmed advertisements and in texts, such as letters to the editor.

Performance Indicator - ELA.4.R.3.E:
Students judge accuracy of content to gather facts, with assistance from teachers and parents/caregivers.

Performance Indicator - ELA.4.R.3.F:
Students use opinions and reactions of teachers and classmates to evaluate personal interpretation of ideas, information, and experience.

Performance Indicator - ELA.4.R.3.G:
Students evaluate information, ideas, opinions, and themes in texts by identifying, with assistance:

• a central idea and supporting details
• missing or unclear information

Performance Indicator - ELA.4.R.3.H:
Students identify different perspectives, such as social, cultural, ethnic, and historical, on an issue presented in more than one text, with assistance.