Maryland Standards
MD.2.0. Comprehension of Informational Text
2.A.2. Identify and use text features to facilitate understanding of informational texts
2.A.2.c. Use informational aids such as introductions and overviews, materials lists, timelines, captions, glossed words, labels, numbered steps, bulleted lists, footnoted words, pronunciation key, transition words, boxed text
MD.3.0. Comprehension of Literary Text
3.A.2. Use text features to facilitate understanding of literary texts
3.A.2.c. Identify and explain how informational aids such as introductions and overviews, materials lists, timelines, captions, glossed words, labels, numbered steps, bulleted lists, footnoted words, pronunciation keys, transition words, end notes, works cited, other information aids encountered in informational texts contribute to meaning
MD.4.0. Writing
4.A.1. Compose texts using the prewriting and drafting strategies of effective writers and speakers
4.A.1.b. Plan and organize ideas for writing by using an appropriate organizational structure such as chronological or sequential order, comparison and contrast, cause and effect
4.A.1.b.1. Complete an idea by providing topic, support and concluding sentences
4.A.2. Compose oral, written, and visual presentations that express personal ideas, inform, and persuade
4.A.2.d. Compose to persuade using significant reasons and relevant support
4.A.2.d.1. Agree or disagree with an idea and generate convincing reasons with relevant support
4.A.3. Compose texts using the revising and editing strategies of effective writers and speakers
4.A.3.a. Revise texts for clarity, completeness, and effectiveness
4.A.3.a.3. Clarify meaning by rearranging sentences within a text for a clear beginning, middle, and end
4.A.5. Assess the effectiveness of choice of details, organizational pattern, word choice, and use of figurative language in the student's own composing
4.A.5.c. Examine and use spatial transitions such as ''near,'' ''far,'' ''on the left,'' and ''in the distance''