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RL Reading – Literary Text
- RL.P Principles of Reading
- RL.P.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
- RL.P.2 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds.
- RL.P.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- RL.P.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- RL.P.4.1 Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
- RL.P.4.2 Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, expression, intonation, and phrasing on successive readings.
- RL.P.4.3 Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
- RL.MC Meaning and Context
- RL.MC.5 Determine meaning and develop logical interpretations by making predictions, inferring, drawing conclusions, analyzing, synthesizing, providing evidence, and investigating multiple interpretations.
- RL.MC.5.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text; identify multiple supported interpretations.
- RL.MC.6 Summarize key details and ideas to support analysis of thematic development.
- RL.MC.6.1 Determine a theme 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.
- RL.MC.7 Analyze the relationship among ideas, themes, or topics in multiple media, formats, and in visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities
- RL.MC.7.1 Trace the development of a common theme in two different artistic mediums.
- RL.MC.7.2 Investigate how literary texts and related media allude to themes and archetypes from historical and cultural traditions.
- RL.MC.8 Analyze characters, settings, events, and ideas as they develop and interact within a particular context.
- RL.MC.8.1 Analyze how characters or a series of ideas or events is introduced, connected, and developed within a particular context.
- RL.MC.5 Determine meaning and develop logical interpretations by making predictions, inferring, drawing conclusions, analyzing, synthesizing, providing evidence, and investigating multiple interpretations.
- RL.LCS Language, Craft, and Structure
- RL.LCS.9 Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, and conventions, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts.
- RL.LCS.9.1 Determine the figurative and connotative meanings of words and phrases; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.
- RL.LCS.10 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.
- RL.LCS.10.1 Use context clues to determine meanings of words and phrases.
- RL.LCS.11 Analyze and provide evidence of how the author’s choice of point of view, perspective, and purpose shape content, meaning, and style.
- RL.LCS.11.1 Analyze and provide evidence of how the author’s choice of point of view, perspective, and purpose shape content, meaning, and style.
- RL.LCS.12 Analyze and critique how the author uses structures in print and multimedia texts to shape meaning and impact the reader.
- RL.LCS.12.1 Determine the significance of the author’s use of text structure and plot organization to create the effects of mystery, tension, or surprise citing support from the text.
- RL.LCS.12.2 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within the text, and manipulate time create different effects.
- RL.LCS.9 Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, and conventions, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts.
- RL.RC Range and Complexity
- RL.RC.13 Read independently and comprehend a variety of texts for the purposes of reading for enjoyment, acquiring new learning, and building stamina; reflect on and respond to increasingly complex text over time.
- RL.RC.13.1 Engage in whole and small group reading with purpose and understanding.
- RL.RC.13.2 Read independently for sustained periods of time to build stamina.
- RL.RC.13.3 Read and respond to grade level text to become self-directed, critical readers and thinkers.
- RL.RC.13 Read independently and comprehend a variety of texts for the purposes of reading for enjoyment, acquiring new learning, and building stamina; reflect on and respond to increasingly complex text over time.