Topic: Reading Standards for Informational Text, Grades 9-10.

Review: Cite evidence in text for explicit or inferential meaning. Analyze development of a central idea. Analyze how ideas and events influence one another. Evaluate how formality and types of diction shape meaning. Evaluate effectiveness of an author’s structure on exposition or argument. Analyze documents of historical and literary significance for their premises, purpose and structure. Synthesize information presented in different formats (text, video, etc.). Assess the truth of an argument. Does the text justify the conclusions? Analyze how authors argue. Read informational texts independently.

Source:  “CCSSI (Common Core State Standards Initiative) for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies and Science.” March 10, 2010. You will find the standards at http://www.corestandards.org/.

Topic: Reading Standards for Informational Text, Grade 8

Review: Cite a wide range of evidence for explicit and inferential meaning. Provide an objective summary of a text. Analyze how an author introduces, illustrates and elaborates two or more significant ideas in a text. Explain the comparisons an author makes through metaphors, allusions and analogies in a text and how these comparisons contribute to meaning. Analyze a specific paragraph in a text. Compare and contrast points of view of two authors writing about the same topic. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of two or more different mediums. Evaluate an argument’s claims and reasoning. Compare and contrast how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations.

Source:  “CCSSI (Common Core State Standards Initiative) for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies and Science.” March 10, 2010. You will find the standards at http://www.corestandards.org/.

Topic: Reading Standards for Informational Text, Grade 7.

Review: Cite several sources of textual evidence. Analyze how two or more central ideas relate to each other. Describe how an author introduces, illustrates, and elaborates a key idea. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text. Describe how an author’s choice of specific words affects meaning and tone. Describe how any given sentence, paragraph, chapter or section fits into the overall structure of a text. Describe an author’s point of view or purpose in a text. Compare and contrast the impressions conveyed when listening to  or viewing a video or multimedia presentation. Identify the stated and unstated premises of an argument. Identify where two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same subject. Do they disagree on matters of fact or interpretation?

Source:  “CCSSI (Common Core State Standards Initiative) for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies and Science.” March 10, 2010. You will find the standards at http://www.corestandards.org/.

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Resume Monday, 5/17/2010.

Topic: Reading Standards for Informational Text, Grade 6.

Review: Cite specific textual evidence to support explicit meaning of the text. Analyze how a central idea develops. Determine causes or reasons that link different events, ideas or information. Interpret words and phrases, including technical, figurate and connotative language. Describe how an author uses structure to organize a text. Compare and contrast one author’s point of view to another’s. Compare and contrast a subject in different mediums. Distinguish among fact, opinion and reasoned judgment. Assess similarities and differences between texts on the same subject. Read informational text independently.

Source:  “CCSSI (Common Core State Standards Initiative) for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies and Science.” March 10, 2010. You will find the standards at http://www.corestandards.org/.

Topic: Reading Standards for Literature, Grades 11 and 12.

Review: Cite strong textual evidence. Determine where text is uncertain. Analyze author’s choices in setting, plot and characters. Analyze condensed language in poetry. Determine how word choice, multiple meanings shape effects and tone. Analyze text structure. Analyze author’s use of satire, irony and understatement and various layers of meaning. Compare and contrast multiple interpretations. Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material. Read literature independently, proficiently and fluently.

Source:  “CCSSI (Common Core State Standards Initiative) for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies and Science.” March 10, 2010. You will find the standards at http://www.corestandards.org/.

Topic: Reading Standards for Literature, Grades 9 and 10.

Review: Cite evidence from text; analyze in detail the development of a theme or central idea; analyze complex characters with conflicting motivation; evaluate how author’s use of language shapes meaning; analyze how an author structures text; analyze a case in which the author’s work takes a position on a social issue; compare and contrast representation of a subject in two different mediums; analyze a wide range of nineteenth and early-twentieth century works in American literature, compare and contrast similar ideas and themes; read literature independently.

Source:  “CCSSI (Common Core State Standards Initiative) for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies and Science.” March 10, 2010. You will find the standards at http://www.corestandards.org/.