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High School Reading: Grades 9-10 · Lessons

High School Reading: Grades 9-10 lessons

4 sections · 27 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 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
Weighting distribution
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
0/3 completed
3 skills to mastery
1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what theRecommended
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2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail itsAvailable
Long-form
3
Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflictingAvailable
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 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories,Available
Long-form

Reading Literature · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

2 core skills7% total weight
0/2 completed
2 skills to mastery
1
Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in aAvailable
Long-form
2
Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two differentAvailable
Long-form

Reading Literature · Craft and Structure

3 core skills7% total weight
0/3 completed
3 skills to mastery
1
Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, orderAvailable
Long-form
2
Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in aAvailable
Long-form
3
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text,Available
Long-form

Reading Informational Text · Craft and Structure

3 core skills8% total weight
0/3 completed
3 skills to mastery
1
Analyze in detail how an author's ideas or claims are developed andAvailable
Long-form
2
Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze howAvailable
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
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what theAvailable
Long-form
2
Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events,Available
Long-form
3
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over theAvailable
Long-form

Reading Informational Text · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

4 core skills10% total weight
0/4 completed
4 skills to mastery
1
Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., aAvailable
Long-form
2
Analyzing Seminal U.S. DocumentsAvailable
Long-form
3
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text,Available
Long-form
4
Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significanceAvailable
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 9, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in theAvailable
Long-form

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

2 core skills8% total weight
0/2 completed
2 skills to mastery
1
Analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations.Available
Long-form
2
Interpret figures of speech (e.g., euphemism, oxymoron) in context andAvailable
Long-form

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

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

1 core skills25% total weight
0/1 completed
1 skill to mastery
1
Evaluate Text Quality Using CriteriaAvailable
Long-form lesson — not available yet