Grade 9 » Reading Standards for Literature

Description: Cite relevant 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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Description: Determine a theme or central idea of a text, and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details.

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Description: Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters and advance the plot or develop themes.

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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 literary texts independently and proficiently.

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

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Description: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it and manipulate time create such effects as mystery, tension or surprise.

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