Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.A:
Students read, view, and interpret texts from a variety of genres.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.B:
Students define characteristics of different genres.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.C:
Students select literary texts on the basis of personal needs and interests and read silently for enjoyment for extended periods.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.D:
Students read aloud from a variety of genres (e.g., plays and poems):

• use inflection and intonation appropriate to text read and audience

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.E:
Students recognize that the same story can be told in different genres (e.g., novels, poems, or plays).

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.F:
Students identify literary elements, (e.g., setting, plot, character, rhythm, and rhyme) of different genres.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.G:
Students recognize how the author uses literary devices, such as simile, metaphor, and personification, to create meaning.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.H:
Students recognize how different authors treat similar themes.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.I:
Students identify the ways in which characters change and develop throughout a story.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.J:
Students interpret characters, plot, setting, and theme, using evidence from the text, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.K:
Students identify the author's point of view, such as first-person narrator and omniscient narrator, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.L:
Students determine how the use and meaning of literary devices, such as symbolism, metaphor and simile, alliteration, personification, flashback, and foreshadowing, convey the author's message or intent, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.M:
Students recognize how the author's use of language creates images or feelings, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.N:
Students identify poetic elements, such as repetition, rhythm, and rhyming patterns, in order to interpret poetry, with assistance.

Performance Indicator - ELA.6.R.2.O:
Students identify social and cultural context and other characteristics of the time period to enhance understanding and appreciation of text, with assistance.