Grade 9 » Reading


Craft and Structure

9-10.RI.CS.4

Description: Informational Text
Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
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.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

9-10.RI.CS.5

Description: Informational Text
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of a text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
Analyze how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

9-10.RI.CS.6

Description: Informational Text
Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

9-10.RL.CS.4

Description: Literature
Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, such as how language evokes a sense of time and place, and how it communicates an informal or formal tone.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

9-10.RL.CS.5

Description: Literature
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of a text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
Analyze how an author’s choices concerning text structure, plot structure, and/or time manipulation create effects such as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

Key Ideas and Details

9-10.RI.KID.1

Description: Informational Text
Read closely to determine what a text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
Analyze what a text says explicitly and draw inferences; cite the strongest, most compelling textual evidence to support conclusions.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

9-10.RI.KID.2

Description: Informational Text
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development; provide an objective or critical summary.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

9-10.RI.KID.3

Description: Informational Text
Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
Analyze how an author presents and develops key ideas and events to impact meaning.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

9-10.RL.KID.1

Description: Literature
Read closely to determine what a text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
Analyze what a text says explicitly and draw inferences; cite the strongest, most compelling textual evidence to support conclusions.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

9-10.RL.KID.2

Description: Literature
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development; provide an objective or critical summary.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts

9-10.RL.KID.3

Description: Literature
Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
Analyze how complex characters, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text to impact meaning.
Does Reading Plus meet this standard?
✓ standard met
Aligned modules:
✓ SeeReader
✓ Writing Prompts