Grade 12 » Reading Standards for Informational Text


Key Ideas and Details

11-12.RI.1

Description: Accurately cite strong, relevant, and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferentially, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
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11-12.RI.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 provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text to support analysis.
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11-12.RI.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.
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Craft and Structure

11-12.RI.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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11-12.RI.5

Description: 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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11-12.RI.6

Description: 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 its overall rhetorical effectiveness.
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Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

11-12.RI.7

Description: Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, verbally, quantitatively) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
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11-12.RI.9

Description: Analyze seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century foundational U.S. documents of historical and literary significance for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.
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