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High School Reading: Grades 9-10

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High School Reading: Grades 9-10

Practice 27 skills across this outline.

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Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the
Reading Literature · Key Ideas and Details
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11 categories
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
25%
Vocabulary · Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
17%
Reading Informational Text · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
10%
Reading Literature · Key Ideas and Details
8%
Reading Informational Text · Craft and Structure
8%
Vocabulary · Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
8%

Skills

The comprehensive taxonomy of high school reading: grades 9-10 — drill into a card to work its skills.

Reading Literature · Key Ideas and Details

3 core skills8% total weight
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Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what theRecommended
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Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail itsAvailable
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Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflictingAvailable
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Reading Literature · Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

1 core skills3% total weight
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1
By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories,Available
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Reading Literature · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

2 core skills7% total weight
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Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in aAvailable
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Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two differentAvailable
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Reading Literature · Craft and Structure

3 core skills7% total weight
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Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, orderAvailable
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Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in aAvailable
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Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text,Available
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Reading Informational Text · Craft and Structure

3 core skills8% total weight
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Analyze in detail how an author's ideas or claims are developed andAvailable
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Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze howAvailable
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Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text,Available
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Reading Informational Text · Key Ideas and Details

3 core skills6% total weight
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Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what theAvailable
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Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events,Available
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Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over theAvailable
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Reading Informational Text · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

4 core skills10% total weight
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Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., aAvailable
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Analyzing Seminal U.S. DocumentsAvailable
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Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text,Available
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Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significanceAvailable
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Reading Informational Text · Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

1 core skills2% total weight
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1 skill to mastery
1
By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in theAvailable
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Vocabulary · Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

2 core skills8% total weight
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Analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations.Available
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Interpret figures of speech (e.g., euphemism, oxymoron) in context andAvailable
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Vocabulary · Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

4 core skills17% total weight
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Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text;Available
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Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries,Available
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Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phraseAvailable
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Identify and correctly use patterns of word changes that indicateAvailable
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Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

1 core skills25% total weight
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1 skill to mastery
1
Evaluate Text Quality Using CriteriaAvailable
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