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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.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- RI.P.4.1 Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
- RI.P.4.2 Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, expression, intonation, and phrasing on successive readings.
- RI.P.4.3 Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
- 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 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
- RI.MC.6 Summarize key details and ideas to support analysis of central ideas.
- RI.MC.6.1 Provide an objective summary of a text with two or more central ideas; cite key supporting details.
- RI.MC.7 Research events, topics, ideas, or concepts through multiple media, formats, and in visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities.
- RI.MC.7.1 Integrate information presented in different media or formats to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
- 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 Determine figurative, connotative, and technical meanings of words and phrases used in a text; analyze the impact of specific word choice on meaning and tone.
- RI.LCS.8.2 Identify text features and structures that support an author’s ideas or claim.
- RI.LCS.9 Apply a range of strategies to determine and deepen the meaning of known, unknown, and multiple meaning words, phrase and jargon; acquire and use general academic and domain-specific vocabulary.
- RI.LCS.9.1 Determine the meaning of a word or phrase using the overall meaning of a text or a word’s position or function.
- RI.LCS.9.2 Determine or clarify the meaning of a word or phrase using knowledge of word patterns, origins, bases, and affixes.
- RI.LCS.10 Analyze and provide evidence of how the author’s choice of purpose or perspective shapes content, meaning, and style.
- RI.LCS.10.1 Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the perspective represented.
- 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 text features and structures that support an author’s idea or claim.
- RI.LCS.11.2 Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
- 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.