• Students examine implicit relationships, such as cause and effect, sequence-time relationships, comparisons, classifications, and generalizations; and  
  • Infer an author's unstated meaning by drawing conclusions based on facts, events, images, patterns, or symbols in the text.  
  • Identify unstated reasons for actions or beliefs based on explicitly stated information.
• Students analyze and evaluate whether a conclusion is validated by the evidence in a selection; and
  • Draw conclusions about the author's motivation or purpose for writing a passage or story based on evidence in the selection.
• Students extend and deepen comprehension by relating text to other texts, experiences, issues, and events. 

• Students convey clear, focused main ideas supported by details and examples in ways appropriate to topic, audience, and purpose.  
• Students structure writing in a sequence by developing a beginning, middle, and end and by making transitions among ideas and paragraphs.  
• Students write in a variety of modes (such as, narrative, imaginative, expository, persuasive) and forms (such as, essays, stories, letters, research papers, reports) appropriate to audience and purpose.

• Recognize symbolism in writing and the parable story form, which is usually a short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle
• Understand how an author’s choices of point of view, language, and characterization affect a story
• Demonstrate understanding of a novel’s characters, setting, and plot by predicting how characters would react and how the plot would change if the characters made different choices
• Engage in all the stages of the writing process (including prewriting, drafting, editing and revising, and publishing) while writing alternative endings, settings, or plot sequences for a story

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