Grade 9 » Reading Standards for Informational Text


Key Ideas and Details

9-10.RI.1

Description: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
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9-10.RI.2

Description: Determine a central idea 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.
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9-10.RI.3

Description: Analyze how the author constructs an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.
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Craft and Structure

9-10.RI.4

Description: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.
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9-10.RI.5

Description: Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter).
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9-10.RI.6

Description: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
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