Grade 12 » Reading Standards for Informational Text


Key Ideas and Details

RI.11-12.1

Description: Cite relevant and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RI.11-12.2

Description: 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 produce a complex account.
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✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RI.11-12.3

Description: 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.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

RI.11-12.10

Description: By the end of the year, flexibly use a variety of comprehension strategies (i.e., questioning, monitoring, visualizing, inferencing, summarizing, synthesizing, using prior knowledge, determining importance) to read, comprehend, and analyze grade-level appropriate, complex informational texts independently and proficiently.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts
Note: Students can fulfill this standard's requirements by completing the SeeReader level corresponding to grade level 12.

Craft and Structure

RI.11-12.4

Description: 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.
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✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RI.11-12.5

Description: Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument.
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✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RI.11-12.6

Description: Determine an author’s point of view, perspective and purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the effectiveness of the text.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

RI.11-12.7

Description: Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different print and non-print formats in order to address a question or solve a problem.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RI.11-12.8

Description: Evaluate the argument, specific claims and evidence in a text, assessing the validity, reasoning, relevance and sufficiency; analyze false statements and fallacious reasoning.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

RI.11-12.9

Description: Analyze documents of historical and literary significance, including how they address related themes and concepts.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts