Reading for Informational Text Archive

By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 11–CCR text complexity band proficiently,…

Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text,…

Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact…

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical…

Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including…

Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing…

Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as…

Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts, including the application of constitutional principles and use of legal…