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RI Reading – Informational Text
- RI.P Principles of Reading
- RI.P.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
- RI.P.2 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds.
- RI.P.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills when decoding words.
- RI.P.3.1 Use knowledge of r-controlled vowels to read.
- RI.P.3.2 Use knowledge of how syllables work to read multisyllabic words.
- RI.P.3.3 Read irregularly spelled two-syllable words and words with common prefixes and suffixes.
- RI.P.3.4 Use and apply knowledge of vowel diphthongs.
- RI.P.3.5 Use and apply knowledge of how inflectional endings change words.
- RI.P.3.6 Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
- RI.P.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- RI.P.4.1 Read grade-level texts with purpose and understanding.
- RI.P.4.2 Read grade-level texts orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, expression, intonation, and phrasing on successive readings.
- RI.MC Meaning and Context
- RI.MC.5 Determine meaning and develop logical interpretations by making predictions, inferring, drawing conclusions, analyzing, synthesizing, providing evidence, and investigating multiple interpretations.
- RI.MC.5.1 Ask and answer literal and inferential questions to demonstrate understanding of a text; use specific details to make inferences and draw conclusions in texts heard or read.
- RI.MC.5.2 Make predictions before and during reading; confirm or modify thinking.
- RI.MC.6 Summarize key details and ideas to support analysis of central ideas.
- RI.MC.6.1 Retell the central idea and key details from multi-paragraph texts; summarize the text by stating the topic of each paragraph heard, read, or viewed.
- RI.MC.7 Research events, topics, ideas, or concepts through multiple media, formats, and in visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities.
- RI.MC.7.1 Compare and contrast topics, ideas, or concepts across texts in a thematic, author, or genre study heard, read, or viewed.
- RI.MC.5 Determine meaning and develop logical interpretations by making predictions, inferring, drawing conclusions, analyzing, synthesizing, providing evidence, and investigating multiple interpretations.
- RI.LCS Language, Craft, and Structure
- RI.LCS.8 Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, text features, conventions, and structures, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts.
- RI.LCS.8.1 Identify how the author uses words, phrases, illustrations, and photographs to inform, explain, or describe.
- RI.LCS.8.2 Use index, headings, bullets, and captions to locate key facts and information; explain the relationship between these features and the text.
- RI.LCS.9 Apply a range of strategies to determine and deepen the meaning of known, unknown, and multiple-meaning words, phrases, and jargon; acquire and use general academic and domain-specific vocabulary.
- RI.LCS.9.1 Use context to determine the meaning of words and phrases.
- RI.LCS.9.2 Determine the meaning of a newly formed word when a known affix is added to the word.
- RI.LCS.9.3 Use a base word to determine the meaning of an unknown word with the same base.
- RI.LCS.9.4 Use print and multimedia resources to determine or clarify the precise meaning of words and phrases.
- RI.LCS.9.5 Acquire and use general academic and domain-specific words and phrases acquired through talk and text; identify nuances of words and phrases.
- RI.LCS.10 Analyze and provide evidence of how the author’s choice of purpose and perspective shapes content, meaning, and style.
- RI.LCS.10.1 Identify and analyze the author’s purpose.
- RI.LCS.11 Analyze and critique how the author uses structures in print and multimedia texts to craft informational and argument writing.
- RI.LCS.11.1 Identify sequential order, cause and effect relationships, and compare and contrast structures within texts to locate information and gain meaning.
- RI.LCS.11.2 Identify the structures an author uses to support specific points.
- RI.LCS.8 Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, text features, conventions, and structures, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts.
- RI.RC Range and Complexity
- RI.RC.12 Read independently and comprehend a variety of texts for the purposes of reading for enjoyment, acquiring new learning, and building stamina; reflect and respond to increasingly complex text over time.
- RI.RC.12.1 Engage in whole and small group reading with purpose and understanding.
- RI.RC.12.2 Read independently for sustained periods of time.
- RI.RC.12.3 Read and respond according to task and purpose to become self-directed, critical readers and thinkers.
- RI.RC.12 Read independently and comprehend a variety of texts for the purposes of reading for enjoyment, acquiring new learning, and building stamina; reflect and respond to increasingly complex text over time.