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Standard 2.0 Comprehension of Informational Text
Students will read, comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate informational text.
Indicator
- 1. Apply comprehension skills by selecting, reading, and interpreting a variety of print and non-print informational texts, including electronic media
Objectives
- Read, use, and identify the characteristics of primary and secondary sources of academic information such as textbooks, trade books, reference and research materials, periodicals, editorials, speeches, interviews, articles, non-print materials, and online materials, other appropriate content-specific texts
Assessment limit: Grade-appropriate primary and secondary texts
- Read, use, and identify the characteristics of workplace and other real-world documents such as sets of directions, science investigations, atlases, posters, flyers, forms, instructional manuals, menus, pamphlets, rules, invitations, recipes, advertisements, other functional documents
Assessment limit: Grade-appropriate workplace and real-world documents
- Select and read to gain information from personal interest materials such as books, magazines, cookbooks, catalogs, web sites, and other online materials
Objectives
- Analyze print features that contribute to meaning
Assessment limit: In the text or a portion of the text
- Analyze graphic aids that contribute to meaning
Assessment limit: In the text or a portion of the text
- Analyze informational aids that contribute to meaning
Assessment limit: In the text or a portion of the text
- Analyze organizational aids that contribute to meaning
Assessment limit: In the text or a portion of the text
- Analyze online features that contribute to meaning
Assessment limit: In the text or a portion of the text
- Analyze the relationship between the text features and the content of the text as a whole
Assessment limit: In the text or a portion of the text
Indicator
- 3. Apply knowledge of organizational patterns of informational text to facilitate understanding
Objectives
- Analyze the organizational patterns of texts such as sequential and/or chronological order, cause/effect, problem/solution, similarities/differences, description, main idea and supporting details, order of importance, transition or signal words and phrases that indicate the organizational pattern
Assessment limit: In the text or a portion of the text
- Analyze the contribution of the organizational pattern to clarify or reinforce meaning and support the author's purpose and/or argument
Assessment limit: In the text or a portion of the text
- Use organizational structure to locate specific information
Objectives
- Identify and explain the author's/text's purpose and intended audience
Assessment limits:
- Purpose of the author or the text or a portion of the text
- Connections between the text and the intended audience
- Identify and explain the author's argument, viewpoint, or perspective
Assessment limit: In the text or a portion of the text
- State and support main ideas and messages
Assessment limit: In the text or a portion of the text
- Summarize or paraphrase
Assessment limit: The text or a portion of the text
- Identify and explain information or ideas peripheral to the main idea or message
Assessment limit: In the text or a portion of the text
- Explain relationships between and among ideas
Assessment limits:
- In the text or a portion of the text
- Relationships between and among ideas within a text or across multiple texts
- Synthesize ideas from text
Assessment limit: From one text or a portion of the text or across multiple texts
- Distinguish between a fact and an opinion
Assessment limit: In one or more texts or a portion of a text
- Explain how someone might use the text
Assessment limits:
- Application of the text for personal use or content-specific use
- Topics and ideas within a text or across texts that may have implications for readers or contemporary society
- Connect the text to prior knowledge or experience
Assessment limit: Prior knowledge that clarifies, extends, or challenges the ideas in the text or a portion of the text
Objectives
- Analyze specific word choice that contributes to the meaning and/or creates style
Assessment limits:
- Significant words and phrases (e.g., figurative language, idioms, etc.) in the text or a portion of the text
- Connotations of grade-appropriate words in context
- Denotations of above-grade-level words in context
- Discernible styles such as persuasive, informal, formal, etc.
- Analyze specific language choices to determine tone
Assessment limit: In the text or a portion of the text
- Analyze repetition and variation of specific words and phrases that contribute to meaning
Assessment limit: In the text or a portion of the text
Objectives
- Analyze the extent to which the text fulfills the reading purpose
Assessment limit: Connections between the content of the text and the purpose for reading
- Analyze the extent to which the structure and text features clarify the purpose and the information
Assessment limits:
- Connections between effectiveness of format and text features in clarifying the main idea and/or purpose of the text
- Connections between effectiveness of organizational pattern and clarity of the main idea and/or purpose of the text
- Analyze the text and its information for reliability
Assessment limits:
- Connections between the credentials of the author and the information in the text
- Currency of the information in the text
- Verification of information across multiple sources
- Analyze the author's argument or position for clarity and/or bias
Assessment limit: Evidence of opposing points of view
- Analyze additional information that would clarify or strengthen the author's argument or viewpoint
Assessment limit: Information that would enhance or clarify the reader's understanding of the main idea of the text or a portion of the text
- Analyze language and other techniques intended to persuade the reader
Assessment limit: Significant words and phrases that have an emotional appeal
Indicators/objectives that include assessment limits are assessed on MSA *New Standards identifies the need for students to process 1 million words per year to maintain academic progress.
11/15/07
