Aligned Standard

ELA.EE.RL.9-10.5: Identify where a text deviates from a chronological presentation of events.

Grade Level Standard

This is aligned the following California State Standards:

  • RL.9-10.5 - Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

Linkage Level Descriptions

Initial Precursor

When the student reads a text that has a forward sequence of events, the student is able to recognize that events follow one another.

Distal Precursor

After reading or hearing a story, the student can identify information or events that occurred at the beginning and end of the story.

Proximal Precursor

After reading the story, the student can identify how the characters, events, or settings change over the course of the story.

Target

After reading a text, the student can recognize when events deviate from chronological order from language that signals shifts in time (such as flashbacks or other text cues).

Successor

The student is able to recognize that a story's structure may be influenced by the story's meaning and can use the structural elements to grasp the meaning of the story.