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Subject Area - CC.8:
History and Social Studies
History and Social Studies
- Standard Area - CC.8.5: 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.8.5.6-8: GRADES 6-8
Standard - CC.8.5.6-8.A
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
Standard - CC.8.5.6-8.B
Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
Standard - CC.8.5.6-8.C
Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered).
Standard - CC.8.5.6-8.D
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
Standard - CC.8.5.6-8.E
Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally).
Standard - CC.8.5.6-8.F
Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).
Standard - CC.8.5.6-8.G
Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
Standard - CC.8.5.6-8.H
Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text.
Standard - CC.8.5.6-8.I
Analyze the relationship between a primary and secondary source on the same topic.
Standard - CC.8.5.6-8.J
By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently
