Standards - English Language Arts

Apply prior knowledge to textual clues to draw conclusions about the author’s meaning.

Make an inference about the meaning of a text and support it with textual evidence.

Identify the narrator’s point of view in a literary text and explain how it differs from a character’s perspective.

Explain the difference between first person and third person narration, including omniscient and third person limited.

Identify the point of view in a narrative and describe how the narrative would be different if told from the perspective of a different character or narrator.

Compare and contrast firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic, describing the differences in focus and the information provided.

Compare the perspectives of different characters within a text.

Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.

Determine and state an implied theme, explicit theme, or life lesson from a myth, story, or other traditional literature.

Analyze a common or shared theme and its development in stories, myths, and/or other traditional literature.

Use details and examples from a text to indicate what the text explicitly states.

Interpret facts from an informational article, using details and examples from the text to explain the interpretation.

List the main questions answered by an informational article.

Categorize statements in an article or other informational text as fact or opinion and give reasons for each choice.

Explain the differences between primary and secondary sources, giving examples from texts.

Explain how relevant details support the implied or explicit main idea of a text.

Determine the central idea or theme of a text.

Explain the difference between implied and explicit details.

Summarize the key supporting details by citing evidence from a text.

Analyze events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in informational texts, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.

Cite evidence to explain the author’s perspective toward a topic in an informational text.

Evaluate how text features and structures contribute to the meaning of an informational text.

Identify and describe the structures within a text, including description, comparison and contrast, sequence, problem and solution, and cause and effect.

Interpret information from text features in both print and digital formats.

Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points and claims in an informational text or argument.

Make text-based inferences to determine possible reasons for an author’s stance.

Explain how the form of a poem contributes to its meaning.

Analyze how rhythm and rhyme in poetry contribute to meaning.

Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.

Write clear and coherent responses to texts, using explicit or implicit evidence that supports a particular point.

Add audio recordings to presentations, when appropriate, to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.

Synthesize information on a topic in order to write or speak knowledgeably about the subject.

Make complex inferences within and across texts to determine the importance of information.

Use evidence to explain information across texts including different perspectives and/or points of view.

Orally paraphrase portions of a text or information presented in diverse media when collaborating and/or presenting.