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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 in decoding words.
- RI.P.3.1 Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.
- RI.P.3.6 Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
- RI.P.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension:
- RI.P.4.2 Read grade-level prose and poetry 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 determine meaning; refer explicitly to the text to support inferences and conclusions.
- RI.MC.6 Summarize key details and ideas to support analysis of central ideas.
- RI.MC.6.1 Summarize multi-paragraph texts using key details to support the central idea.
- 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 diverse texts on the same topic, idea, or concept.
- 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 Explain how the author uses words and phrases to inform, explain, or describe.
- RI.LCS.8.2 Use knowledge of appendices, timelines, maps, and charts to locate information and gain meaning; explain how these features contribute to a 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 paragraph-level context to determine the meaning of words and phrases.
- RI.LCS.9.2 Determine the meaning of a word when an affix is added to a base word.
- RI.LCS.9.4 Consult print and multimedia resources to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words or phrases.
- RI.LCS.9.5 Acquire and use general academic and domain-specific words and phrases that signal spatial and temporal relationships; demonstrate an understanding of nuances.
- 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 State the author’s purpose; distinguish one’s own perspective from that of the author.
- 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 problem and solution, description, and question and answer structures to locate information and gain meaning.
- RI.LCS.11.2 Describe 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.