Sample Literature Objectives, Concepts, and Outcomes

Objective - Concept pairs: notes about objectives and concepts

Objective - Students will read the story and answer literal comprehension questions from memory, or rereading the text to find appropriate references about the story elements.
Concept - Information used to tell a story has words that specifically describe objects, ideas, and events within the story that can be used to describe the story elements.

Objective - After reading the story students will answer interpretive comprehension questions, from memory or rereading the text, by using reasoning skills to join literal references to make interpretive analysis about the characters actions.
Concept - Sometimes information about characters feelings, actions, and reasoning are not described specifically within the story, but can be interpreted or inferred by reasoning about intentions or motivations by relating ideas, that are not specifically described in the text, like clues and hints to solve a problem.

Objective - Students will read the story and identify, from memory or rereading the text, the setting, main character, minor character, and plot.
Concept - All stories have a sequence of events that happen at a certain time and place that involves a person, animal, or object that have self-awareness.

Objective - Students will use their definition sheets, created in previous classes, to identify, from memory or rereading the text, the setting, main character, minor character, and plot after reading the story and share their answers and reasons for those answers with the class.
Concept - All stories have a sequence of events that happen at a certain time and place that involves a person, animal, or object that have self-awareness.

Objective - Students will use the examples of similes, discussed and recorded in their journals, in class to identify three similes while reading chapter three, share their examples with the class, and reason why they selected each.
Concept - A simile is a comparison that uses like, as and occasionally than to describe something in a manner that communicates a deeper understanding with economy of words or beyond a physical or direct description.

Examples of Literature Outcomes

Character chart

Identify characters and describe them as good/bad, powerful/weak, content/worried, brave/cowardly, harmless/dangerous, confident/self-conscious, adventurous and support their choices with examples from the text.

Plot - Chain of events

Identify the plot as a chain of events. Describe how the first event caused or led to the second and how the second led to the third and so forth until whatever event caused the climax and then resolution. Describe all events as examples from the text.

Story map

Identify - setting, characters, plot elements (beginning of story, conflict/problem, action/events, climax, resolution) and map the relationships and of setting, characters, and plot elements. Describe how the relationships helped or didn't help the enjoyment of the book.

Book character report card

Identify characters and describe them with the use of an analogy. Explain the analogy and support the choice of the analogy with examples from the text.

Character traits

Select characters in a story and describe each character's traits. Explain how each character's traits fit or don't fit with the story and how the author created and communicated them as realistic, plausible, and believable for this story. Do you believe the characters could actully exist? how did the author make you and others believe the characters were or could have been real live characters and what ideas in the text created and supported this idea.

Book rating sheet

Describe what combinations of setting, characters, plot elements (beginning of story, conflict/problem, action/events, climax, resolution), theme, point of view, style, tone, that help them enjoy the book and support their selections with specific examples from the text.

Quality literature

Create a list of what makes quality literature. Use the list to evaluate a book. Describe how information on the quality literature list was or wasn't included in the book and how it did or didn't contribute to the quality of the story, particularly what makes it outstanding for its particular genre and support the ideas with examples from the text.

Historical fiction accuracy

Identify historical events in a story and judge the events in the book as historically accurate, believable, realistic, plausible, ... based on evidence of what the author included in the text compared to other historical sources.