Grade 12 » Reading for All Purposes


Interpret and evaluate complex literature using various critical reading strategies.

RW.11-12.2.1.a.i

Description: Use Key Ideas and Details to:
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
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✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RW.11-12.2.1.a.ii

Description: Use Key Ideas and Details to:
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
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✓ standard met
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✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RW.11-12.2.1.a.iii

Description: Use Key Ideas and Details to:
Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (for example: where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
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✓ standard met
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✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RW.11-12.2.1.b.i

Description: Use Craft and Structure to:
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.)
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✓ standard met
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✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RW.11-12.2.1.b.ii

Description: Use Craft and Structure to:
Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (for example: the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
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✓ standard met
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✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RW.11-12.2.1.b.iii

Description: Use Craft and Structure to:
Analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (for example: satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).
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✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

Interpret and evaluate complex informational texts using various critical reading strategies.

RW.11-12.2.2.a.i

Description: Use Key Ideas and Details to:
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RW.11-12.2.2.a.ii

Description: Use Key Ideas and Details to:
Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.
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✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RW.11-12.2.2.a.iii

Description: Use Key Ideas and Details to:
Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.
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✓ standard met
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✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RW.11-12.2.2.a.v

Description: Use Key Ideas and Details to:
Predict the impact an informational text will have on an audience and justify the prediction.
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✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RW.11-12.2.2.b.i

Description: Use Craft and Structure to:
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text (for example: how Madison defines “faction” in Federalist No. 10).
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✓ standard met
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✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RW.11-12.2.2.b.ii

Description: Use Craft and Structure to:
Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.
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✓ standard met
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✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RW.11-12.2.2.b.iii

Description: Use Craft and Structure to:
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.
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✓ standard met
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✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RW.11-12.2.2.c.i

Description: Use Integration of Knowledge and Ideas to:
Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (for example: visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem.
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✓ standard met
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✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RW.11-12.2.2.c.iii

Description: Use Integration of Knowledge and Ideas to:
Analyze 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century foundational U.S. documents of historical and literary significance (for example: The Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address) for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features by the end of 12th grade.
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✓ standard met
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✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

Understand how language influences the comprehension of narrative, argumentative, and informational texts.

RW.11-12.2.3.a.i

Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 11–12 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Use context (for example: the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
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✓ standard met
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✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts