Tackling Complex Texts with Confidence
Challenge readers with complex literary and informational texts that require inference, argument analysis, and author's purpose evaluation.
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Grade 610 standards
Analyze how the interaction between characters contributes to the development of a plot in a literary text.
Explain how individual text sections and/or features convey meaning in texts.
Explain how figurative language contributes to tone and meaning in text(s).
Analyze the development of stated or implied theme(s) throughout a literary text.
Analyze the central idea(s), implied or explicit, and its development throughout a text.
Paraphrase content from grade-level texts.
Explain the influence of multiple narrators and/or shifts in point of view in a literary text.
Analyze authors’ purpose(s) in multiple accounts of the same event or topic.
Describe the impact of various poetic forms on meaning and style.
Track the development of an argument, identifying the types of reasoning used.
Grade 711 standards
Analyze the impact of setting on character development and plot in a literary text.
Explain how individual text sections and/or features convey a purpose in texts.
Analyze how figurative language contributes to tone and meaning and explain examples of allusions in text(s).
Compare two or more themes and their development throughout a literary text.
Compare two or more central ideas and their development throughout a text.
Paraphrase content from grade-level texts.
Explain the influence of narrator(s), including unreliable narrator(s), and/or shifts in point of view in a literary text.
Explain how an author establishes and achieves purpose(s) through diction and syntax.
Compare and contrast how authors with differing perspectives address the same or related topics or themes.
Analyze the impact of various poetic forms on meaning and style.
Track the development of an argument, analyzing the types of reasoning used and their effectiveness.
Grade 810 standards
Analyze the interaction between character development, setting, and plot in a literary text.
Analyze how individual text sections and/or features convey a purpose and/or meaning in texts.
Analyze how figurative language contributes to meaning and explain examples of symbolism in text(s).
Analyze two or more themes and their development throughout a literary text.
Analyze two or more central ideas and their development throughout a text.
Paraphrase content from grade-level texts.
Analyze how an author develops and individualizes the perspectives of different characters.
Explain how an author establishes and achieves purpose(s) through rhetorical appeals and/or figurative language.
Analyze structure, sound, imagery, and figurative language in poetry.
Track the development of an argument, analyzing the types of reasoning used and their effectiveness and identifying ways in which the argument could be improved.