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High School Reading: Grades 11-12 · Lessons

High School Reading: Grades 11-12 lessons

4 sections · 28 skills · work through the full outline skill by skill — read the long-form lesson or flip through the slide-style version.
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High School Reading: Grades 11-12

Practice 28 skills across this outline.

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Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and
Reading Literature · Key Ideas and Details
Long-form lesson
Weighting distribution
11 categories
Key Ideas and Details
25%
Vocabulary · Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 11–12 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
15%
Reading Informational Text · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
10%
Vocabulary · Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
10%
Reading Literature · Key Ideas and Details
9%
Reading Literature · Craft and Structure
8%

Skills

The comprehensive taxonomy of high school reading: grades 11-12 — drill into a card to work its skills.

Reading Literature · Key Ideas and Details

3 core skills9% total weight
0/3 completed
3 skills to mastery
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Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop andRecommended
Long-form
2
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze theirAvailable
Long-form
3
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what theAvailable
Long-form

Reading Literature · Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

1 core skills3% total weight
0/1 completed
1 skill to mastery
1
By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories,Available
Long-form

Reading Literature · Craft and Structure

3 core skills8% total weight
0/3 completed
3 skills to mastery
1
Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishingAvailable
Long-form
2
Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific partsAvailable
Long-form
3
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text,Available
Long-form

Reading Literature · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

2 core skills5% total weight
0/2 completed
2 skills to mastery
1
Demonstrate knowledge of eighteenth-, nineteenth- andAvailable
Long-form
2
Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g.,Available
Long-form

Reading Informational Text · Craft and Structure

3 core skills7% total weight
0/3 completed
3 skills to mastery
1
Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses inAvailable
Long-form
2
Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which theAvailable
Long-form
3
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text,Available
Long-form

Reading Informational Text · Key Ideas and Details

3 core skills6% total weight
0/3 completed
3 skills to mastery
1
Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain howAvailable
Long-form
2
Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze theirAvailable
Long-form
3
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what theAvailable
Long-form

Reading Informational Text · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

5 core skills10% total weight
0/5 completed
5 skills to mastery
1
Evaluating Seminal U.S. TextsAvailable
Long-form
2
Analyzing Foundational U.S. DocumentsAvailable
Long-form
3
Analyze seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century foundationalAvailable
Long-form
4
Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts, including theAvailable
Long-form
5
Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented inAvailable
Long-form

Reading Informational Text · Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

1 core skills2% total weight
0/1 completed
1 skill to mastery
1
By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in theAvailable
Long-form

Vocabulary · Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 11–12 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

4 core skills15% total weight
0/4 completed
4 skills to mastery
1
Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phraseAvailable
Long-form
2
Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries,Available
Long-form
3
Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text;Available
Long-form
4
Identify and correctly use patterns of word changes that indicateAvailable
Long-form

Vocabulary · Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

2 core skills10% total weight
0/2 completed
2 skills to mastery
1
Interpret figures of speech (e.g., hyperbole, paradox) in context andAvailable
Long-form
2
Analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations.Available
Long-form

Key Ideas and Details

1 core skills25% total weight
0/1 completed
1 skill to mastery
1
Follow Complex Multistep Procedures in Technical TextsAvailable
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