110.2.b.8

Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts. The student is expected to:
(A) demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes;
(B) discuss rhyme and rhythm in nursery rhymes and a variety of poems;
(C) discuss main characters in drama;
(D) recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including:
(i) the central idea and supporting evidence with adult assistance;
(ii) titles and simple graphics to gain information; and
(iii) the steps in a sequence with adult assistance;
(E) recognize characteristics of persuasive text with adult assistance and state what the author is trying to persuade the reader to think or do; and
(F) recognize characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.