Colorado 9th Grade ELA Standards in Reading for All Purposes

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RW.9-10.2 Reading for All Purposes

• RW.9-10.2.1 Analyze traditional and contemporary literary texts with scrutiny and comparison of literary elements.
  • RW.9-10.2.1.a Use Key Ideas and Details to:
    • RW.9-10.2.1.a.i Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
    • RW.9-10.2.1.a.ii Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail 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.
    • RW.9-10.2.1.a.iii Analyze how complex characters (for example: those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
  • RW.9-10.2.1.b Use Craft and Structure to:
    • RW.9-10.2.1.b.i Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (for example: how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
    • RW.9-10.2.1.b.ii Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (for example: parallel plots), and manipulate time (for example: pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
    • RW.9-10.2.1.b.iii Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
  • RW.9-10.2.1.c Use Integration of Knowledge and Ideas to:
    • RW.9-10.2.1.c.i Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (for example: Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).
    • RW.9-10.2.1.c.ii Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (for example: how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).
    • RW.9-10.2.1.c.iii Analyze the influence of literary and/or historical context on a text and evaluate the contribution to society made by works of literature that deal with similar topics and themes.
  • RW.9-10.2.1.d Use Range of Reading and Complexity of Text to:
    • RW.9-10.2.1.d.i By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
• RW.9-10.2.2 Understand the logical progression of ideas in increasingly complex texts.
  • RW.9-10.2.2.a Use Key Ideas and Details to:
    • RW.9-10.2.2.a.i Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
    • RW.9-10.2.2.a.ii 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.
    • RW.9-10.2.2.a.iii Analyze how the 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.
  • RW.9-10.2.2.b Use Craft and Structure to:
    • RW.9-10.2.2.b.i Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (for example: how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
    • RW.9-10.2.2.b.ii Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (for example: a section or chapter).
    • RW.9-10.2.2.b.iii Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
  • RW.9-10.2.2.c Use Integration of Knowledge and Ideas to:
    • RW.9-10.2.2.c.i Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (for example: a person’s life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account.
    • RW.9-10.2.2.c.ii Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.
    • RW.9-10.2.2.c.iii By the end of grade 10, analyze seminal U.S. and world documents of historical and literary significance (for example: the Magna Carta, Machiavelli’s The Prince, Washington’s Farewell Address, the Gettysburg Address, Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech, King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”), including how they influence and address related themes and concepts over the course of time.
  • RW.9-10.2.2.d Use Range of Reading and Complexity of Text to:
    • RW.9-10.2.2.d.i By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
• RW.9-10.2.3 Utilize context, parts of speech, grammar, and word choice to understand narrative, argumentative, and informational texts.
  • RW.9-10.2.3.a Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
    • RW.9-10.2.3.a.i Use context (for example: the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
    • RW.9-10.2.3.a.ii Identify and correctly use patterns of word changes that indicate different meanings or parts of speech (for example: analyze, analysis, analytical; advocate, advocacy).
    • RW.9-10.2.3.a.iii Consult general and specialized reference materials (for example: dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning, its part of speech, or its etymology.
    • RW.9-10.2.3.a.iv Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (for example: by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
  • RW.9-10.2.3.b Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
    • RW.9-10.2.3.b.i Interpret figures of speech (for example: euphemism, oxymoron) in context and analyze their role in the text.
    • RW.9-10.2.3.b.ii Analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations.
  • RW.9-10.2.3.c 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.