Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.3.A:
Students analyze and evaluate nonfiction texts, including professional journals, technical manuals, and position papers, to determine the writer's perspectives, purposes, and intended audience:

• identify text structure, using supports such as graphic organizers
• preview a text (e.g., in order to build a schema), noticing structural markers, such as headings and subheadings
• focus on key word/phrases that signal that the text is heading in a particular direction
• identify the particular kinds of language used in particular texts

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.3.B:
Students analyze and evaluate poetry in order to recognize the use and effect of:

• sensory imagery
• figurative language
• verse form

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.3.C:
Students engage in oral reading activities, such as choral readings, and a variety of written responses, such as double entry journals, to identify and distinguish examples of verse form.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.3.D:
Students form opinions and make judgments about literary works by analyzing and evaluating texts from more than one critical perspective, such as a social perspective.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.3.E:
Students select, reject, and reconcile ideas and information in light of beliefs.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.3.F:
Students make judgments about the quality of literary texts and performances by applying personal and academic criteria, such as that found in literary criticism.

Performance Indicator - ELA.12.R.3.G:
Students analyze and evaluate the intellectual and/or emotional impact of specific texts on the reader.