TRANSITIONS

Ways to add speaker tags to dialogue to show the true emotion of a character:

FOCUS STANDARDS: TEKS: 

4.7  Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to:

(A)  describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts;

(C) use text evidence to support an appropriate response;

(G) discuss specific ideas in the text that are important to the meaning.

4.9  Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.

4.10  Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances. The student is expected to:

(D) describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile and metaphor, and sound devices such as alliteration and assonance achieves specific purposes;

(F)  discuss how the author's use of language contributes to voice.