Rhode Island 9th Grade ELA Standards in Reading Informational Text

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RI.9-10 Reading: Informational Text

• Key Ideas and Details
  • RI.9-10.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what a text states explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
  • RI.9-10.2 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 a text.
  • RI.9-10.3 Analyze 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 presence or absence of connections between them.
• Craft and Structure
  • RI.9-10.4 Determine the meaning(s) of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative or contradictory impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper; how an author’s word choice varies from one part of a text to another). (See grades 9–10 Language Standards 4–6 on applying knowledge of vocabulary to reading.)
  • RI.9-10.5 Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter).
  • RI.9-10.6 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.
• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
  • RI.9-10.7 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 or deemphasized in each account.
  • RI.9-10.8 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 or incomplete truths and fallacious reasoning.
  • RI.9-10.9 Analyze seminal documents of historical and literary significance (e.g., Washington’s Farewell Address, Lincoln’s Second Inaugural and Gettysburg Addresses, Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech, King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”), including how they address related themes and concepts.
• Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
  • RI.9-10.10 Independently and proficiently read and comprehend literary nonfiction representing a variety of genres, cultures, and perspectives and exhibiting complexity appropriate for the grade/course. (See Appendix A & Appendix A New Research.)