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Task and Reader Considerations
Students identify details that make up a high level comedy and analyze how Barry conveys a truth about life through humor. Students demonstrate an understanding of this text by citing specific textual evidence when answering text-dependent questions, using textual evidence to support their analysis of the author’s purpose and tone, creating Levels of Questions, and using specific examples from the text to support a response to an expository writing prompt.
Considerations regarding the motivation and experience of the reader should be made at the classroom level.
Placement Considerations
While the quantitative measure places this text above the Grades 6–8 Lexile band, the qualitative considerations and moderate task demands support inclusion of this text and its overall rating of Complex.
This text supports student achievement of Reading standards such as RI.8.1 (cite textual evidence), RI.8.2 (determine central idea), RI.8.3 (analyze connections among individuals and events), RI.8.4 (determine meaning of words), RI.8.5 (analyze role of paragraphs or sentence), RI.8.6 (determine an author’s point of view), and RI.8.10 (read literary nonfiction at high end of text complexity). In addition, this text supports Writing standards such as W.8.2a (introduce topic and organize ideas) and W.8.2d (use precise language to explain).