Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part XI - Accountability/Testing
Subpart 5 - Bulletin 127-LEAP Connect Assessment, Louisiana Connectors for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
Chapter 93 - English Language Arts
Subchapter H - Grade 7
Section XI-9341 - Reading Literature

A. Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly.

B. Use two or more pieces of textual evidence to support conclusions, or summaries of text.

C. Determine the theme or central idea of a text.

D. Analyze the development of the theme or central idea over the course of the text.

E. Analyze the impact of story elements on the text (e.g., impact of setting on a character's choices, cause/effects within the text).

F. Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).

G. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text including figurative (i.e., metaphors, similes, and idioms) and connotative meanings.

H. Identify alliteration within text.

I. Analyze how the use of rhymes or repetitions of sounds affect the tone of the poem, story, or drama.

J. Examine how the structure of a poem or drama adds to its meaning.

K. Compare and contrast the points of view of different characters in the same text.

L. Compare and contrast a story, drama, or poem when presented in two different mediums.

M. Compare and contrast different mediums that may be used to present literary materials to explore the techniques used in the various mediums.

N. Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.

O. Read or be read to a variety of literary texts or adapted texts including historical novels, dramas or plays, poetry (including soliloquies and sonnets), and fiction.

P. Use a variety of strategies to derive meaning from a variety of print and non-print literary texts.