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English Language Arts
- Standard Area - CC.1.2: Reading Informational Text: Students read, understand, and respond to informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.
- Grade Level - CC.1.2.9-10: GRADES 9-10
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
- Standard Area - CC.1.2: Reading Informational Text: Students read, understand, and respond to informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.
- Assessment Anchor - L.N.1:
Reading for meaning—Nonfiction
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.1.1 Identify and/or analyze the author’s intended purpose of a text.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.1.2 Explain, describe, and/or analyze examples of a text that support the author’s intended purpose.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.1.3 Analyze, interpret, and evaluate how authors use techniques and elements of nonfiction to effectively communicate an idea or concept.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.1.4 Explain how an author's use of key words or phrases in text informs and influences the reader.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.2.1 Identify and/or apply a synonym or antonym of a word used in a text.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.2.2 Identify how the meaning of a word is changed when an affix is added; identify the meaning of a word with an affix from a text.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.2.3 Use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar, multiple- meaning, or ambiguous words.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.2.4 Draw conclusions about connotations of words.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.3.1
Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from a text.
Note: Items may target specific paragraphs.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.3.2 Summarize the key details and events of a nonfictional text, in part or as a whole.
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Eligible Content - L.N.1.3.3 Analyze the interrelationships of ideas and events in text to determine how one idea or event may interact and influence another.
- Assessment Anchor - L.N.2:
Analyzing and interpreting literature—Nonfiction
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Character may also be called narrator, speaker, or subject of a biography.
- the actions, motives, dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships among characters within nonfictional text
- the relationship between characters and other components of a text
- the development by authors of complex characters and their roles and functions within a text
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate setting in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between setting and other components of the text (character, plot, and other key literary elements)
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate plot in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Plot may also be called action.
- elements of the plot (e.g. exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and/or resolution)
- the relationship between elements of the plot and other components of the text
- how the author structures plot to advance the action
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the theme and other components of the text
- comparing and contrasting how major themes are developed across genres
- the reflection of traditional and contemporary issues, themes, motifs, universal characters, and genres
- the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate voice, tone, style, and mood in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the tone, style, and/or mood and other components of the text
- how voice and choice of speaker (narrator) affect the mood, tone, and/or meaning of the text
- how diction, syntax, figurative language, sentence variety, etc., determine the author’s style
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate point of view in a variety of nonfiction:
- the point of view of the narrator as first person or third person point of view
- the impact of point of view on the meaning of the text as a whole
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences and conclusions based on an author’s explicit assumptions and beliefs about a subject.
- Standard Area - CC.1.2: Reading Informational Text: Students read, understand, and respond to informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.
- Assessment Anchor - L.N.1:
Reading for meaning—Nonfiction
Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from a text.
Note: Items may target specific paragraphs.
Analyzing and interpreting literature—Nonfiction
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Character may also be called narrator, speaker, or subject of a biography.
- the actions, motives, dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships among characters within nonfictional text
- the relationship between characters and other components of a text
- the development by authors of complex characters and their roles and functions within a text
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate setting in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between setting and other components of the text (character, plot, and other key literary elements)
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate plot in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Plot may also be called action.
- elements of the plot (e.g. exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and/or resolution)
- the relationship between elements of the plot and other components of the text
- how the author structures plot to advance the action
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the theme and other components of the text
- comparing and contrasting how major themes are developed across genres
- the reflection of traditional and contemporary issues, themes, motifs, universal characters, and genres
- the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate voice, tone, style, and mood in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the tone, style, and/or mood and other components of the text
- how voice and choice of speaker (narrator) affect the mood, tone, and/or meaning of the text
- how diction, syntax, figurative language, sentence variety, etc., determine the author’s style
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate point of view in a variety of nonfiction:
- the point of view of the narrator as first person or third person point of view
- the impact of point of view on the meaning of the text as a whole
Apply appropriate strategies to analyze, interpret, and evaluate how an author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.
- Standard Area - CC.1.2: Reading Informational Text: Students read, understand, and respond to informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.
- Assessment Anchor - L.N.1:
Reading for meaning—Nonfiction
Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from a text.
Note: Items may target specific paragraphs.
Analyzing and interpreting literature—Nonfiction
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Character may also be called narrator, speaker, or subject of a biography.
- the actions, motives, dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships among characters within nonfictional text
- the relationship between characters and other components of a text
- the development by authors of complex characters and their roles and functions within a text
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate setting in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between setting and other components of the text (character, plot, and other key literary elements)
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate plot in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Plot may also be called action.
- elements of the plot (e.g. exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and/or resolution)
- the relationship between elements of the plot and other components of the text
- how the author structures plot to advance the action
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the theme and other components of the text
- comparing and contrasting how major themes are developed across genres
- the reflection of traditional and contemporary issues, themes, motifs, universal characters, and genres
- the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate voice, tone, style, and mood in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the tone, style, and/or mood and other components of the text
- how voice and choice of speaker (narrator) affect the mood, tone, and/or meaning of the text
- how diction, syntax, figurative language, sentence variety, etc., determine the author’s style
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate point of view in a variety of nonfiction:
- the point of view of the narrator as first person or third person point of view
- the impact of point of view on the meaning of the text as a whole
Determine an author’s particular point of view and analyze how rhetoric advances the point of view.
- Standard Area - CC.1.2: Reading Informational Text: Students read, understand, and respond to informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.
- Assessment Anchor - L.N.2:
Analyzing and interpreting literature—Nonfiction
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Character may also be called narrator, speaker, or subject of a biography.
- the actions, motives, dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships among characters within nonfictional text
- the relationship between characters and other components of a text
- the development by authors of complex characters and their roles and functions within a text
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate setting in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between setting and other components of the text (character, plot, and other key literary elements)
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate plot in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Plot may also be called action.
- elements of the plot (e.g. exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and/or resolution)
- the relationship between elements of the plot and other components of the text
- how the author structures plot to advance the action
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the theme and other components of the text
- comparing and contrasting how major themes are developed across genres
- the reflection of traditional and contemporary issues, themes, motifs, universal characters, and genres
- the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate voice, tone, style, and mood in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the tone, style, and/or mood and other components of the text
- how voice and choice of speaker (narrator) affect the mood, tone, and/or meaning of the text
- how diction, syntax, figurative language, sentence variety, etc., determine the author’s style
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate point of view in a variety of nonfiction:
- the point of view of the narrator as first person or third person point of view
- the impact of point of view on the meaning of the text as a whole
Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text.
- Standard Area - CC.1.2: Reading Informational Text: Students read, understand, and respond to informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.
- Assessment Anchor - L.N.1:
Reading for meaning—Nonfiction
Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from a text.
Note: Items may target specific paragraphs.
Analyzing and interpreting literature—Nonfiction
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Character may also be called narrator, speaker, or subject of a biography.
- the actions, motives, dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships among characters within nonfictional text
- the relationship between characters and other components of a text
- the development by authors of complex characters and their roles and functions within a text
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate setting in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between setting and other components of the text (character, plot, and other key literary elements)
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate plot in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Plot may also be called action.
- elements of the plot (e.g. exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and/or resolution)
- the relationship between elements of the plot and other components of the text
- how the author structures plot to advance the action
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the theme and other components of the text
- comparing and contrasting how major themes are developed across genres
- the reflection of traditional and contemporary issues, themes, motifs, universal characters, and genres
- the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate voice, tone, style, and mood in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the tone, style, and/or mood and other components of the text
- how voice and choice of speaker (narrator) affect the mood, tone, and/or meaning of the text
- how diction, syntax, figurative language, sentence variety, etc., determine the author’s style
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate point of view in a variety of nonfiction:
- the point of view of the narrator as first person or third person point of view
- the impact of point of view on the meaning of the text as a whole
Analyze how words and phrases shape meaning and tone in texts.
- Standard Area - CC.1.2: Reading Informational Text: Students read, understand, and respond to informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.
- Assessment Anchor - L.N.1:
Reading for meaning—Nonfiction
Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from a text.
Note: Items may target specific paragraphs.
Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person’s life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account.
- Standard Area - CC.1.2: Reading Informational Text: Students read, understand, and respond to informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.
- Assessment Anchor - L.N.2:
Analyzing and interpreting literature—Nonfiction
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Character may also be called narrator, speaker, or subject of a biography.
- the actions, motives, dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships among characters within nonfictional text
- the relationship between characters and other components of a text
- the development by authors of complex characters and their roles and functions within a text
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate setting in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between setting and other components of the text (character, plot, and other key literary elements)
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate plot in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Plot may also be called action.
- elements of the plot (e.g. exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and/or resolution)
- the relationship between elements of the plot and other components of the text
- how the author structures plot to advance the action
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the theme and other components of the text
- comparing and contrasting how major themes are developed across genres
- the reflection of traditional and contemporary issues, themes, motifs, universal characters, and genres
- the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate voice, tone, style, and mood in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the tone, style, and/or mood and other components of the text
- how voice and choice of speaker (narrator) affect the mood, tone, and/or meaning of the text
- how diction, syntax, figurative language, sentence variety, etc., determine the author’s style
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate point of view in a variety of nonfiction:
- the point of view of the narrator as first person or third person point of view
- the impact of point of view on the meaning of the text as a whole
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing the validity of reasoning and relevance of evidence.
- Standard Area - CC.1.2: Reading Informational Text: Students read, understand, and respond to informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.
- Assessment Anchor - L.N.2:
Analyzing and interpreting literature—Nonfiction
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Character may also be called narrator, speaker, or subject of a biography.
- the actions, motives, dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships among characters within nonfictional text
- the relationship between characters and other components of a text
- the development by authors of complex characters and their roles and functions within a text
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate setting in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between setting and other components of the text (character, plot, and other key literary elements)
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate plot in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Plot may also be called action.
- elements of the plot (e.g. exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and/or resolution)
- the relationship between elements of the plot and other components of the text
- how the author structures plot to advance the action
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the theme and other components of the text
- comparing and contrasting how major themes are developed across genres
- the reflection of traditional and contemporary issues, themes, motifs, universal characters, and genres
- the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate voice, tone, style, and mood in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the tone, style, and/or mood and other components of the text
- how voice and choice of speaker (narrator) affect the mood, tone, and/or meaning of the text
- how diction, syntax, figurative language, sentence variety, etc., determine the author’s style
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate point of view in a variety of nonfiction:
- the point of view of the narrator as first person or third person point of view
- the impact of point of view on the meaning of the text as a whole
Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, including how they address related themes and concepts.
Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
- Standard Area - CC.1.2: Reading Informational Text: Students read, understand, and respond to informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.
- Assessment Anchor - L.N.1:
Reading for meaning—Nonfiction
Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from a text.
Note: Items may target specific paragraphs.
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies and tools.
- Standard Area - CC.1.2: Reading Informational Text: Students read, understand, and respond to informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.
- Assessment Anchor - L.N.1:
Reading for meaning—Nonfiction
Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from a text.
Note: Items may target specific paragraphs.
Read and comprehend literary non-fiction and informational text on grade level, reading independently and proficiently.
- Standard Area - CC.1.2: Reading Informational Text: Students read, understand, and respond to informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.
- Assessment Anchor - L.N.2:
Analyzing and interpreting literature—Nonfiction
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Character may also be called narrator, speaker, or subject of a biography.
- the actions, motives, dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships among characters within nonfictional text
- the relationship between characters and other components of a text
- the development by authors of complex characters and their roles and functions within a text
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate setting in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between setting and other components of the text (character, plot, and other key literary elements)
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate plot in a variety of nonfiction:
Note: Plot may also be called action.
- elements of the plot (e.g. exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and/or resolution)
- the relationship between elements of the plot and other components of the text
- how the author structures plot to advance the action
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the theme and other components of the text
- comparing and contrasting how major themes are developed across genres
- the reflection of traditional and contemporary issues, themes, motifs, universal characters, and genres
- the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate voice, tone, style, and mood in a variety of nonfiction:
- the relationship between the tone, style, and/or mood and other components of the text
- how voice and choice of speaker (narrator) affect the mood, tone, and/or meaning of the text
- how diction, syntax, figurative language, sentence variety, etc., determine the author’s style
Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate point of view in a variety of nonfiction:
- the point of view of the narrator as first person or third person point of view
- the impact of point of view on the meaning of the text as a whole