Learning Continuum - Reading 6+ CCSS 2010 1.1

RIT 161-170

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Informational Text

Analyze Point of View, Purpose, Features, and Structure

• Locating Information
    - Locates information in diagrams or illustrations

• Text Features, Visuals
    - Locates information in diagrams or illustrations

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

• Author's Craft: Figurative Language
    - Interprets idiom in context

RIT 171-180

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Informational Text

Analyze Point of View, Purpose, Features, and Structure

• Locating Information
    - Locates information in diagrams or illustrations
    - Locates information in tables of contents

• Text Features, Visuals
    - Analyzes information in Venn diagrams or other graphic organizers
    - Locates information in diagrams or illustrations
    - Locates information in tables of contents

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

• Academic and Content Vocabulary
    - Demonstrates understanding of words or phrases that convey a specific emotion
    - Determines the meaning of academic words or phrases in context

• Author's Craft: Figurative Language
    - Interprets idiom in context
    - Interprets metaphor in context
    - Interprets simile in context
    - Understands the meaning of common idioms

• Base Words, Affixes
    - Applies knowledge of Greek or Latin roots to determine the meaning of a word in the 2-5 grade band
    - Understands how the suffix -less or -ful changes the meaning of a word

• Reference Materials
    - Locates information in dictionaries or glossaries
    - Uses context and dictionary, glossary, or thesaurus entries to determine word meaning

• Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words
    - Uses context in a grade 03 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of words in the 2-5 grade band

• Word Relationships
    - Uses synonym relationships in context to determine word meanings

RIT 181-190

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Literary Text

Analyze Point of View, Features, and Structure

• Author's Craft: Perspective, Attitude
    - Determines narrator's attitude in literary text

• Point of View
    - Identifies the narrator in literary text
    - Understands how details reveal a character's point of view

• Text Features, Visuals
    - Analyzes how images contribute to meaning or tone in literary text

• Text Structure: Organization
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to plot in literary text

Informational Text

Analyze Point of View, Purpose, Features, and Structure

• Assertions and Claims
    - Identifies evidence that supports a statement in informational text

• Author's Craft: Perspective, Attitude
    - Determines author's attitude in persuasive text

• Locating Information
    - Locates information in charts or graphs
    - Locates information in diagrams or illustrations
    - Locates information in tables of contents

• Text Features, Visuals
    - Analyzes information in Venn diagrams or other graphic organizers
    - Determines specific purpose of a graphic
    - Interprets information in charts or graphs
    - Locates information in charts or graphs
    - Locates information in diagrams or illustrations
    - Locates information in tables of contents

• Text Structure: Organization
    - Identifies process as a structure in informational text

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

• Academic and Content Vocabulary
    - Demonstrates understanding of academic vocabulary
    - Demonstrates understanding of words or phrases that show a spatial relationship
    - Determines the meaning of academic words or phrases in context
    - Determines the meaning of domain‑specific words or phrases in context

• Author's Craft: Figurative Language
    - Determines the meaning of a figurative word or phrase in context
    - Interprets idiom in context
    - Interprets metaphor in context
    - Interprets personification in context
    - Interprets simile in context
    - Understands the meaning of common idioms

• Base Words, Affixes
    - Applies knowledge of Greek or Latin roots to determine the meaning of a word in the 2-5 grade band
    - Understands how the suffix -less or -ful changes the meaning of a word
    - Uses a defined root and/or affix to determine word meaning
    - Uses the base word to determine the meaning of a word

• Reference Materials
    - Locates information in dictionaries or glossaries
    - Uses context and dictionary, glossary, or thesaurus entries to determine word meaning

• Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words
    - Determines which meaning of a multiple-meaning word in the 2-5 grade band fits a given context
    - Identifies words or phrases that provide paragraph-level context for a word
    - Uses context in a grade 03 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 04 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 05 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 06 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of words in the 2-5 grade band

• Word Nuances and Shades of Meaning
    - Analyzes nuances in meaning among related words to determine which fits a given context
    - Uses context to determine connotation of words

• Word Relationships
    - Uses context to identify words that are synonyms or antonyms
    - Uses synonym relationships in context to determine word meanings

RIT 191-200

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Literary Text

Analyze Point of View, Features, and Structure

• Author's Craft: Foreshadowing, Flashback
    - Understands how authors develop characters using flashback

• Author's Craft: Perspective, Attitude
    - Determines narrator's attitude in literary text

• Dialogue
    - Analyzes how dialogue advances plot in literary text

• Plot
    - Analyzes how dialogue advances plot in literary text

• Point of View
    - Analyzes the effect of narrator's point of view
    - Recognizes first-person point of view
    - Understands how a character's point of view affects the story
    - Understands how details reveal a character's point of view

• Text Features, Visuals
    - Analyzes how images contribute to meaning or tone in literary text

• Text Structure: Organization
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to meaning in literary text
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to plot in literary text
    - Analyzes how specific parts of a poem contribute to its meaning
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in literary text

Informational Text

Analyze Point of View, Purpose, Features, and Structure

• Assertions and Claims
    - Evaluates evidence used to support claims in informational text
    - Identifies evidence that supports a claim in argumentative text
    - Identifies evidence that supports a statement in informational text
    - Identifies reasons that support a claim in persuasive text
    - Recognizes when a claim is supported by evidence

• Author's Craft: Perspective, Attitude
    - Analyzes how author's viewpoint or attitude is conveyed in literary nonfiction
    - Determines author's attitude in informational text
    - Determines author's attitude in persuasive text
    - Determines similarities or differences in focus of two informational texts on the same topic
    - Understands how an author conveys attitude or perspective in informational text

• Author's Craft: Persuasive and Rhetorical Techniques
    - Analyzes how word choice or rhetorical techniques advance purpose

• Characteristics of Genre: Persuasive, Argumentative
    - Understands main message or claim in advertising

• Locating Information
    - Locates information in diagrams or illustrations
    - Locates information in sidebars or text boxes

• Purpose
    - Analyzes how word choice or rhetorical techniques advance purpose
    - Determines specific purpose of an advertisement
    - Determines specific purpose of an informational text
    - Recognizes when the general purpose of a passage is to inform

• Supporting Details
    - Determines details that support a claim in informational text

• Text Features, Visuals
    - Analyzes information in illustrations
    - Analyzes information in maps
    - Determines specific purpose of a graphic
    - Integrates information from graphics and text
    - Interprets information in charts or graphs
    - Locates information in diagrams or illustrations
    - Locates information in sidebars or text boxes
    - Understands the purpose of subheadings
    - Understands the purpose of varied typeface in informational text

• Text Structure: Organization
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in literary nonfiction
    - Analyzes the use of a compare-contrast structure in informational text
    - Determines the relationship between parts of a text
    - Identifies compare-contrast as a structure in informational text

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

• Academic and Content Vocabulary
    - Demonstrates understanding of academic vocabulary
    - Demonstrates understanding of domain‑specific vocabulary
    - Demonstrates understanding of words or phrases that show a compare or contrast relationship
    - Determines the meaning of academic words or phrases in context
    - Determines the meaning of domain‑specific words or phrases in context
    - Identifies words or phrases in context that show a contrast

• Author’s Craft: Style, Voice, Tone, Mood
    - Analyzes the effect of word choice on meaning or tone

• Author's Craft: Figurative Language
    - Analyzes the effect of figurative language in context
    - Determines the meaning of a figurative word or phrase in context
    - Interprets idiom in context
    - Interprets metaphor in context
    - Interprets personification in context
    - Interprets simile in context
    - Interprets the use of repetition in context
    - Understands the meaning of common idioms

• Base Words, Affixes
    - Applies knowledge of Greek or Latin roots to determine the meaning of a word in the 2-5 grade band
    - Applies knowledge of Greek or Latin roots to determine the meaning of a word in the 6-8 grade band
    - Understands how the suffix -less or -ful changes the meaning of a word
    - Understands the meaning of the combining form micro‑
    - Uses a defined root and/or affix to determine word meaning
    - Uses a variety of morphological elements to determine precise word meaning or use

• Reference Materials
    - Locates information in dictionaries or glossaries
    - Uses context and dictionary, glossary, or thesaurus entries to determine word meaning

• Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words
    - Determines which meaning of a multiple-meaning word in the 2-5 grade band fits a given context
    - Determines which meaning of a multiple-meaning word in the 6-8 grade band fits a given context
    - Identifies words or phrases that provide paragraph-level context for a word
    - Uses context in a grade 03 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 04 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 05 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 06 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 07 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context to confirm initial understanding of words or phrases
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of a phrase
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of words in the 2-5 grade band
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of words in the 6-8 grade band

• Word Nuances and Shades of Meaning
    - Analyzes nuances in meaning among related words to determine which fits a given context
    - Understands precise connotations of words with similar meanings
    - Uses context to determine connotation of words

• Word Relationships
    - Identifies synonyms or antonyms of given words in the 6‑8 grade band
    - Uses a known word in context to determine the meaning of an unknown word
    - Uses antonym relationships in context to determine word meanings
    - Uses context to identify words that are synonyms or antonyms
    - Uses synonym relationships in context to determine word meanings

RIT 201-210

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Literary Text

Analyze Point of View, Features, and Structure

• Author's Craft: Foreshadowing, Flashback
    - Identifies flash-forward in literary text

• Author's Craft: Perspective, Attitude
    - Determines narrator's attitude in literary text
    - Determines speaker's attitude in poetry
    - Identifies details that reveal speaker's viewpoint in poetry
    - Identifies details that support narrator's viewpoint in literary text

• Inferences, Conclusions
    - Makes inferences from literary text and illustrations

• Plot
    - Analyzes climax in literary text

• Point of View
    - Analyzes the effect of narrator's point of view
    - Describes the technique an author uses to develop point of view
    - Predicts how a story would differ if told from another point of view
    - Recognizes first-person point of view
    - Understands how a character's point of view affects the story
    - Understands how details reveal a character's point of view
    - Understands how dramatic irony is created
    - Understands how first-person and third-person narratives differ
    - Understands how point of view differs among characters

• Supporting Details
    - Identifies details that reveal speaker's viewpoint in poetry
    - Identifies details that support narrator's viewpoint in literary text

• Text Features, Visuals
    - Analyzes how images contribute to meaning or tone in literary text

• Text Structure: Organization
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to meaning in literary text
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to plot in literary text
    - Analyzes how specific parts of a poem contribute to its meaning
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in literary text

Informational Text

Analyze Point of View, Purpose, Features, and Structure

• Assertions and Claims
    - Evaluates evidence used to support claims in informational text
    - Evaluates evidence used to support claims in media messages
    - Identifies evidence that supports a claim in argumentative text
    - Identifies evidence that supports a statement in informational text
    - Identifies reasons that support a claim in persuasive text
    - Recognizes when a claim is supported by evidence

• Author's Craft: Perspective, Attitude
    - Analyzes how author's viewpoint or attitude is conveyed in literary nonfiction
    - Determines author's attitude in informational text
    - Determines author's attitude in persuasive text
    - Determines author's viewpoint or attitude in literary nonfiction
    - Determines similarities or differences in focus of two informational texts on the same topic
    - Understands how an author conveys attitude or perspective in informational text

• Author's Craft: Persuasive and Rhetorical Techniques
    - Analyzes how word choice or rhetorical techniques advance purpose
    - Analyzes language used to convey messages in advertising
    - Analyzes persuasive technique used in a speech

• Characteristics of Genre: Persuasive, Argumentative
    - Analyzes language used to convey messages in advertising
    - Analyzes persuasive technique used in a speech

• Purpose
    - Analyzes how word choice or rhetorical techniques advance purpose
    - Determines specific purpose of a letter
    - Determines specific purpose of a literary nonfiction passage
    - Determines specific purpose of an advertisement
    - Determines specific purpose of an informational text

• Supporting Details
    - Determines details that support a claim in informational text
    - Determines details that support a claim in literary nonfiction
    - Determines details that support a stated idea in informational text
    - Determines details that support a stated idea in literary nonfiction
    - Determines details that support an inference in informational text

• Text Features, Visuals
    - Analyzes how visual elements and captions support ideas in a text
    - Determines specific purpose of a graphic
    - Integrates information from graphics and text
    - Interprets information in charts or graphs
    - Understands the purpose of headings
    - Understands the purpose of subheadings
    - Uses context and glossary entries to determine word meaning

• Text Structure: Organization
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to meaning in informational text
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in informational text
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in literary nonfiction
    - Analyzes the use of a compare-contrast structure in informational text
    - Analyzes the use of subsections
    - Compares and contrasts organizational structure in multiple texts
    - Describes the organizational structure of a text
    - Determines specific purpose of a subsection in informational text
    - Determines the relationship between parts of a text
    - Identifies chronology as a structure in informational text
    - Identifies compare-contrast as a structure in informational text
    - Identifies problem‑solution as a structure in informational text

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

• Academic and Content Vocabulary
    - Demonstrates understanding of academic vocabulary
    - Demonstrates understanding of domain‑specific vocabulary
    - Determines the meaning of academic words or phrases in context
    - Determines the meaning of domain‑specific words or phrases in context

• Author’s Craft: Style, Voice, Tone, Mood
    - Analyzes how mood is conveyed in context
    - Analyzes the effect of word choice on meaning or tone
    - Determines mood in context

• Author's Craft: Figurative Language
    - Analyzes the effect of figurative language in context
    - Determines the meaning of a figurative word or phrase in context
    - Interprets allusion in context
    - Interprets extended metaphor in context
    - Interprets hyperbole in context
    - Interprets idiom in context
    - Interprets metaphor in context
    - Interprets oxymoron in context
    - Interprets personification in context
    - Interprets simile in context
    - Interprets symbolism in literary text
    - Interprets the use of repetition in context

• Author's Craft: Imagery, Description
    - Analyzes the effect of imagery in context

• Base Words, Affixes
    - Applies knowledge of Greek or Latin roots to determine the meaning of a word in the 2-5 grade band
    - Applies knowledge of Greek or Latin roots to determine the meaning of a word in the 6-8 grade band
    - Applies knowledge of Greek or Latin roots to determine the meaning of a word in the 9-12 grade band
    - Understands how the prefix un- or re- changes the meaning of a word
    - Understands how the suffix -less or -ful changes the meaning of a word
    - Understands how the suffix -or, -er, or -ist changes the meaning of a noun
    - Uses a defined root and/or affix to determine word meaning
    - Uses a variety of morphological elements to determine precise word meaning or use

• Reference Materials
    - Locates information in dictionaries or glossaries
    - Uses a dictionary definition to confirm initial understanding of word meaning
    - Uses context and dictionary, glossary, or thesaurus entries to determine word meaning

• Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words
    - Determines which meaning of a multiple-meaning word in the 2-5 grade band fits a given context
    - Determines which meaning of a multiple-meaning word in the 6-8 grade band fits a given context
    - Identifies words or phrases that provide paragraph-level context for a word
    - Uses context in a grade 03 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 04 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 05 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 06 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 07 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 08 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 10 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context to confirm initial understanding of words or phrases
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of a phrase
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of words in the 2-5 grade band
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of words in the 6-8 grade band
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of words in the 9‑12 grade band and above

• Word Nuances and Shades of Meaning
    - Analyzes connotative meanings of words in context
    - Analyzes nuances in meaning among related words to determine which fits a given context
    - Understands precise connotations of words with similar meanings
    - Uses context to determine connotation of words

• Word Relationships
    - Identifies synonyms or antonyms of given words in the 6‑8 grade band
    - Uses a known word in context to determine the meaning of an unknown word
    - Uses antonym relationships in context to determine word meanings
    - Uses context to identify words that are synonyms or antonyms
    - Uses synonym relationships in context to determine word meanings

RIT 211-220

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Literary Text

Analyze Point of View, Features, and Structure

• Author’s Craft: Style, Voice, Tone, Mood
    - Analyzes use of suspense in literary text

• Author's Craft: Foreshadowing, Flashback
    - Analyzes use of flashback in literary text

• Author's Craft: Perspective, Attitude
    - Determines narrator's attitude in literary text
    - Determines speaker's attitude in poetry
    - Identifies details that reveal speaker's viewpoint in poetry
    - Identifies details that support narrator's viewpoint in literary text

• Characteristics of Genre: Literary
    - Analyzes structure of a drama
    - Analyzes use of stage directions

• Inferences, Conclusions
    - Makes inferences from literary text and illustrations

• Plot
    - Analyzes use of suspense in literary text

• Point of View
    - Analyzes how an author develops characters with differing points of view
    - Analyzes the effect of narrator's point of view
    - Analyzes the effect of speaker's point of view
    - Describes the technique an author uses to develop point of view
    - Predicts how a story would differ if told from another point of view
    - Recognizes third-person point of view
    - Understands how a character's point of view affects the story
    - Understands how details reveal a character's point of view
    - Understands how dramatic irony is created
    - Understands how point of view differs among characters

• Supporting Details
    - Identifies details that reveal speaker's viewpoint in poetry
    - Identifies details that support narrator's viewpoint in literary text

• Text Features, Visuals
    - Analyzes how images contribute to meaning or tone in literary text

• Text Structure: Organization
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to meaning in literary text
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to plot in literary text
    - Analyzes how specific parts of a poem contribute to its meaning
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in literary text
    - Analyzes how the organization or form of a poem affects its meaning
    - Analyzes structure of a drama
    - Analyzes the purpose or impact of a specific organizational structure

Informational Text

Analyze Point of View, Purpose, Features, and Structure

• Assertions and Claims
    - Analyzes inadequately supported claims in argumentative text
    - Determines author's main argument or claim
    - Evaluates evidence used to support claims in informational text
    - Evaluates the validity of information in informational text
    - Evaluates validity of reasoning in argumentative text
    - Identifies evidence that supports a claim in argumentative text
    - Identifies evidence that supports a statement in informational text
    - Identifies reasons that support a claim in persuasive text
    - Recognizes when a claim is supported by evidence

• Author's Craft: Perspective, Attitude
    - Analyzes how author's viewpoint or attitude is conveyed in literary nonfiction
    - Analyzes how the author's viewpoint or attitude changes in literary nonfiction
    - Determines author's attitude in informational text
    - Determines author's attitude in persuasive text
    - Determines author's viewpoint or attitude in literary nonfiction
    - Determines similarities or differences in focus of two informational texts on the same topic
    - Evaluates author's attitude in informational text to make an inference
    - Understands how an author conveys attitude or perspective in informational text

• Author's Craft: Persuasive and Rhetorical Techniques
    - Analyzes how word choice or rhetorical techniques advance purpose
    - Analyzes language used to convey messages in advertising
    - Analyzes persuasive technique used in a speech
    - Analyzes techniques used by an author to illustrate or emphasize ideas
    - Determines general persuasive technique used in advertising
    - Identifies rhetorical technique used to introduce a claim
    - Recognizes author's use of specific persuasive or propaganda techniques
    - Recognizes the use of rhetorical question

• Characteristics of Genre: Persuasive, Argumentative
    - Analyzes language used to convey messages in advertising
    - Analyzes persuasive technique used in a speech
    - Identifies rhetorical technique used to introduce a claim

• Inferences, Conclusions
    - Evaluates author's attitude in informational text to make an inference

• Literary Elements in Nonfiction
    - Analyzes the effect of dialogue in literary nonfiction

• Point of View
    - Analyzes the effect of author's point of view

• Purpose
    - Analyzes how word choice or rhetorical techniques advance purpose
    - Determines specific purpose of a literary nonfiction passage
    - Determines specific purpose of a persuasive passage
    - Determines specific purpose of an informational text

• Supporting Details
    - Determines details that support a claim in informational text
    - Determines details that support a claim in literary nonfiction
    - Determines details that support a stated idea in informational text
    - Determines details that support a stated idea in literary nonfiction
    - Determines details that support an inference in informational text
    - Determines details that support an inference in literary nonfiction

• Text Features, Visuals
    - Analyzes how visual elements and captions support ideas in a text
    - Integrates information from graphics and text
    - Interprets information in charts or graphs
    - Understands the purpose of subheadings

• Text Structure: Organization
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to meaning in informational text
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to meaning in literary nonfiction
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in informational text
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in literary nonfiction
    - Analyzes the use of a cause-effect structure in informational text
    - Analyzes the use of a chronology structure in informational text
    - Analyzes the use of a compare-contrast structure in informational text
    - Analyzes the use of a problem-solution structure in informational text
    - Compares and contrasts organizational structure in multiple texts
    - Describes the organizational structure of a text
    - Determines specific purpose of a subsection in informational text
    - Determines specific purpose of a subsection in literary nonfiction
    - Determines the relationship between parts of a text
    - Identifies chronology as a structure in informational text
    - Identifies description as a structure in informational text

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

• Academic and Content Vocabulary
    - Demonstrates understanding of academic vocabulary
    - Demonstrates understanding of domain‑specific vocabulary
    - Determines the meaning of academic words or phrases in context
    - Determines the meaning of domain‑specific words or phrases in context
    - Identifies words or phrases in context that show a cause‑effect relationship

• Author’s Craft: Style, Voice, Tone, Mood
    - Analyzes how mood is conveyed in context
    - Analyzes the effect of word choice on meaning or tone
    - Determines mood in context
    - Determines tone in context

• Author's Craft: Figurative Language
    - Analyzes the effect of alliteration
    - Analyzes the effect of figurative language in context
    - Determines the meaning of a figurative word or phrase in context
    - Interprets allusion in context
    - Interprets euphemism in context
    - Interprets extended metaphor in context
    - Interprets hyperbole in context
    - Interprets idiom in context
    - Interprets irony in context
    - Interprets metaphor in context
    - Interprets personification in context
    - Interprets simile in context
    - Interprets symbolism in literary text
    - Interprets the use of repetition in context

• Author's Craft: Imagery, Description
    - Analyzes the effect of imagery in context

• Author's Craft: Persuasive and Rhetorical Techniques
    - Analyzes the effect of analogy

• Base Words, Affixes
    - Applies knowledge of Greek or Latin roots to determine the meaning of a word in the 2-5 grade band
    - Applies knowledge of Greek or Latin roots to determine the meaning of a word in the 6-8 grade band
    - Applies knowledge of Greek or Latin roots to determine the meaning of a word in the 9-12 grade band
    - Understands how the prefix dis-, mis- or non- changes the meaning of a word
    - Understands how the suffix -less or -ful changes the meaning of a word
    - Uses a defined root and/or affix to determine word meaning
    - Uses a variety of morphological elements to determine precise word meaning or use

• Reference Materials
    - Uses a dictionary definition to confirm initial understanding of word meaning
    - Uses context and dictionary, glossary, or thesaurus entries to determine word meaning

• Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words
    - Determines which meaning of a multiple-meaning word in the 2-5 grade band fits a given context
    - Determines which meaning of a multiple-meaning word in the 6-8 grade band fits a given context
    - Determines which meaning of a multiple-meaning word in the 9-12 grade band fits a given context
    - Identifies words or phrases that provide paragraph-level context for a word
    - Identifies words or phrases that provide sentence-level context for a word
    - Uses context in a grade 03 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 04 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 05 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 06 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 07 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 08 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 09 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 10 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 11 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context to confirm initial understanding of words or phrases
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of a phrase
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of words in the 2-5 grade band
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of words in the 6-8 grade band
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of words in the 9‑12 grade band and above

• Word Nuances and Shades of Meaning
    - Analyzes connotative meanings of words in context
    - Analyzes nuances in meaning among related words to determine which fits a given context
    - Understands precise connotations of words with similar meanings
    - Uses context to determine connotation of words

• Word Relationships
    - Identifies synonyms or antonyms of given words in the 6‑8 grade band
    - Uses a known word in context to determine the meaning of an unknown word
    - Uses antonym relationships in context to determine word meanings
    - Uses context to identify words that are synonyms or antonyms
    - Uses synonym relationships in context to determine word meanings

RIT 221-230

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Literary Text

Analyze Point of View, Features, and Structure

• Author’s Craft: Style, Voice, Tone, Mood
    - Analyzes use of suspense in literary text

• Author's Craft: Foreshadowing, Flashback
    - Analyzes use of flashback in literary text

• Author's Craft: Perspective, Attitude
    - Determines narrator's attitude in literary text
    - Determines speaker's attitude in poetry
    - Evaluates narrator's attitude in literary text to make an inference
    - Identifies details that reveal speaker's viewpoint in poetry
    - Identifies details that support narrator's viewpoint in literary text

• Characteristics of Genre: Literary
    - Analyzes use of stage directions

• Plot
    - Analyzes how mood is developed in literary text
    - Analyzes use of suspense in literary text

• Point of View
    - Analyzes the effect of narrator's point of view
    - Analyzes the effect of speaker's point of view in a poem
    - Describes how an ironic point of view affects meaning
    - Describes the technique an author uses to develop point of view
    - Predicts how a story would differ if told from another point of view
    - Understands how a character's point of view affects the story
    - Understands how details reveal a character's point of view
    - Understands how dramatic irony is created
    - Understands how point of view differs among characters

• Supporting Details
    - Identifies details that reveal speaker's viewpoint in poetry
    - Identifies details that support narrator's viewpoint in literary text

• Text Structure: Organization
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to meaning in literary text
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to plot in literary text
    - Analyzes how specific parts of a poem contribute to its meaning
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in literary text
    - Analyzes how the organization or form of a poem affects its meaning
    - Analyzes the purpose or impact of a specific organizational structure

Informational Text

Analyze Point of View, Purpose, Features, and Structure

• Assertions and Claims
    - Determines author's main argument or claim
    - Evaluates evidence used to support claims in argumentative text
    - Evaluates evidence used to support claims in informational text
    - Identifies evidence that supports a statement in informational text
    - Identifies reasons that support a claim in persuasive text
    - Recognizes when a claim is supported by evidence

• Author's Craft: Perspective, Attitude
    - Analyzes argumentative text for evidence of bias
    - Analyzes how author's viewpoint or attitude is conveyed in literary nonfiction
    - Analyzes informational text for evidence of bias or stereotypes
    - Determines author's attitude in informational text
    - Determines author's attitude in persuasive text
    - Determines author's viewpoint or attitude in literary nonfiction
    - Determines similarities or differences in focus of two informational texts on the same topic
    - Evaluates author's attitude in informational text to make an inference
    - Understands how an author conveys attitude or perspective in informational text

• Author's Craft: Persuasive and Rhetorical Techniques
    - Analyzes how word choice or rhetorical techniques advance purpose
    - Analyzes persuasive technique used in a speech
    - Analyzes techniques used by an author to illustrate or emphasize ideas
    - Determines general persuasive technique used in advertising
    - Evaluates author's acknowledgement of counterarguments
    - Recognizes author's use of specific persuasive or propaganda techniques

• Characteristics of Genre: Persuasive, Argumentative
    - Analyzes persuasive technique used in a speech

• Inferences, Conclusions
    - Evaluates author's attitude in informational text to make an inference

• Literary Elements in Nonfiction
    - Analyzes the effect of dialogue in literary nonfiction

• Purpose
    - Analyzes how word choice or rhetorical techniques advance purpose
    - Determines specific purpose of a literary nonfiction passage
    - Determines specific purpose of a persuasive passage
    - Determines specific purpose of an informational text

• Supporting Details
    - Determines details that support a claim in informational text
    - Determines details that support a claim in literary nonfiction
    - Determines details that support a stated idea in literary nonfiction

• Text Features, Visuals
    - Analyzes how visual elements and captions support ideas in a text
    - Evaluates the effectiveness of graphics

• Text Structure: Organization
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to meaning in informational text
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to meaning in literary nonfiction
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in informational text
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in literary nonfiction
    - Analyzes the effect of multiple structures in informational text
    - Analyzes the effect of multiple structures in literary nonfiction text
    - Analyzes the use of a cause-effect structure in informational text
    - Analyzes the use of a chronology structure in informational text
    - Analyzes the use of a compare-contrast structure in informational text
    - Analyzes the use of a description structure in informational text
    - Analyzes the use of a problem-solution structure in informational text
    - Analyzes the use of a sequential structure in informational text
    - Describes the organizational structure of a text
    - Determines specific purpose of a subsection in informational text
    - Determines specific purpose of a subsection in literary nonfiction
    - Determines the relationship between parts of a text
    - Identifies chronology as a structure in informational text

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

• Academic and Content Vocabulary
    - Demonstrates understanding of academic vocabulary
    - Demonstrates understanding of domain‑specific vocabulary
    - Determines the meaning of academic words or phrases in context
    - Determines the meaning of domain‑specific words or phrases in context

• Author’s Craft: Style, Voice, Tone, Mood
    - Analyzes how mood is conveyed in context
    - Analyzes the effect of word choice on meaning or tone
    - Determines mood in context
    - Determines tone in context

• Author's Craft: Figurative Language
    - Analyzes the effect of alliteration
    - Analyzes the effect of figurative language in context
    - Determines the meaning of a figurative word or phrase in context
    - Interprets allusion in context
    - Interprets euphemism in context
    - Interprets extended metaphor in context
    - Interprets hyperbole in context
    - Interprets idiom in context
    - Interprets irony in context
    - Interprets metaphor in context
    - Interprets paradox in context
    - Interprets personification in context
    - Interprets simile in context
    - Interprets symbolism in literary text
    - Interprets the use of repetition in context

• Author's Craft: Imagery, Description
    - Analyzes the effect of imagery in context

• Base Words, Affixes
    - Applies knowledge of Greek or Latin roots to determine the meaning of a word in the 2-5 grade band
    - Applies knowledge of Greek or Latin roots to determine the meaning of a word in the 6-8 grade band
    - Applies knowledge of Greek or Latin roots to determine the meaning of a word in the 9-12 grade band
    - Identifies the meaning of common Greek and Latin roots
    - Uses a defined root and/or affix to determine word meaning
    - Uses a variety of morphological elements to determine precise word meaning or use

• Reference Materials
    - Uses a dictionary definition to confirm initial understanding of word meaning
    - Uses context and dictionary, glossary, or thesaurus entries to determine word meaning

• Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words
    - Determines which meaning of a multiple-meaning word in the 2-5 grade band fits a given context
    - Determines which meaning of a multiple-meaning word in the 6-8 grade band fits a given context
    - Determines which meaning of a multiple-meaning word in the 9-12 grade band fits a given context
    - Identifies words or phrases that provide paragraph-level context for a word
    - Uses context in a grade 03 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 04 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 05 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 06 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 07 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 08 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 09 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 10 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 11 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 12 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context to confirm initial understanding of words or phrases
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of a phrase
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of words in the 6-8 grade band
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of words in the 9‑12 grade band and above

• Word Nuances and Shades of Meaning
    - Analyzes connotative meanings of words in context
    - Analyzes nuances in meaning among related words to determine which fits a given context
    - Understands precise connotations of words with similar meanings
    - Uses context to determine connotation of words

• Word Relationships
    - Identifies synonyms or antonyms of given words in the 9‑12 grade band
    - Uses antonym relationships in context to determine word meanings
    - Uses context to identify words that are synonyms or antonyms
    - Uses synonym relationships in context to determine word meanings

RIT 231-240

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Literary Text

Analyze Point of View, Features, and Structure

• Author's Craft: Foreshadowing, Flashback
    - Analyzes use of flashback in literary text
    - Analyzes use of foreshadowing in literary text
    - Identifies flashback in literary text

• Author's Craft: Perspective, Attitude
    - Determines narrator's attitude in literary text
    - Determines speaker's attitude in poetry
    - Evaluates narrator's attitude in literary text to make an inference
    - Identifies details that support narrator's viewpoint in literary text
    - Understands the point an author makes in a satirical passage

• Characteristics of Genre: Literary
    - Analyzes use of stage directions

• Plot
    - Identifies falling action in literary text

• Point of View
    - Analyzes the effect of narrator's point of view
    - Describes how an ironic point of view affects meaning
    - Describes the technique an author uses to develop point of view
    - Predicts how a story would differ if told from another point of view
    - Understands how details reveal a character's point of view
    - Understands how dramatic irony is created
    - Understands how point of view differs among characters

• Supporting Details
    - Identifies details that support narrator's viewpoint in literary text

• Text Structure: Organization
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to meaning in literary text
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to plot in literary text
    - Analyzes how specific parts of a poem contribute to its meaning
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in literary text
    - Analyzes how the organization or form of a poem affects its meaning
    - Analyzes the purpose or impact of a specific organizational structure

Informational Text

Analyze Point of View, Purpose, Features, and Structure

• Assertions and Claims
    - Determines author's main argument or claim
    - Evaluates evidence used to support claims in argumentative text
    - Evaluates evidence used to support claims in informational text
    - Identifies reasons that support a claim in persuasive text
    - Recognizes when a claim is supported by evidence
    - Recognizes when assertions are stated as generalizations

• Author's Craft: Perspective, Attitude
    - Analyzes advertising for evidence of bias
    - Analyzes how author's viewpoint or attitude is conveyed in literary nonfiction
    - Analyzes informational text for evidence of bias or stereotypes
    - Determines author's attitude in informational text
    - Determines author's attitude in persuasive text
    - Determines author's viewpoint or attitude in literary nonfiction
    - Evaluates author's attitude in informational text to make an inference
    - Evaluates the effect of bias in argumentative text
    - Understands how an author conveys attitude or perspective in informational text

• Author's Craft: Persuasive and Rhetorical Techniques
    - Analyzes how word choice or rhetorical techniques advance purpose
    - Analyzes persuasive technique used in a speech
    - Analyzes techniques used by an author to illustrate or emphasize ideas

• Characteristics of Genre: Persuasive, Argumentative
    - Analyzes advertising for evidence of bias
    - Analyzes persuasive technique used in a speech

• Inferences, Conclusions
    - Evaluates author's attitude in informational text to make an inference

• Literary Elements in Nonfiction
    - Analyzes the effect of dialogue in literary nonfiction

• Purpose
    - Analyzes how word choice or rhetorical techniques advance purpose

• Supporting Details
    - Determines details that support a claim in informational text
    - Determines details that support a claim in literary nonfiction

• Text Features, Visuals
    - Analyzes how visual elements and captions support ideas in a text

• Text Structure: Organization
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to meaning in informational text
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to meaning in literary nonfiction
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in informational text
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in literary nonfiction
    - Analyzes the effect of multiple structures in informational text
    - Analyzes the use of a cause-effect structure in informational text
    - Analyzes the use of a chronology structure in informational text
    - Analyzes the use of a chronology structure in literary nonfiction
    - Analyzes the use of a compare-contrast structure in informational text
    - Analyzes the use of a description structure in informational text
    - Analyzes the use of a problem-solution structure in informational text
    - Describes the organizational structure of a text
    - Determines specific purpose of a subsection in informational text
    - Determines specific purpose of a subsection in literary nonfiction
    - Determines the relationship between parts of a text

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

• Academic and Content Vocabulary
    - Demonstrates understanding of academic vocabulary
    - Demonstrates understanding of domain‑specific vocabulary
    - Determines the meaning of academic words or phrases in context
    - Determines the meaning of domain‑specific words or phrases in context

• Author’s Craft: Style, Voice, Tone, Mood
    - Analyzes how mood is conveyed in context
    - Analyzes the effect of word choice on meaning or tone
    - Determines mood in context
    - Determines tone in context

• Author's Craft: Figurative Language
    - Analyzes the effect of alliteration
    - Analyzes the effect of figurative language in context
    - Determines the meaning of a figurative word or phrase in context
    - Interprets allegory in literary text
    - Interprets allusion in context
    - Interprets euphemism in context
    - Interprets extended metaphor in context
    - Interprets hyperbole in context
    - Interprets metaphor in context
    - Interprets paradox in context
    - Interprets personification in context
    - Interprets simile in context
    - Interprets symbolism in literary text
    - Interprets the use of repetition in context

• Author's Craft: Imagery, Description
    - Analyzes the effect of imagery in context

• Base Words, Affixes
    - Applies knowledge of Greek or Latin roots to determine the meaning of a word in the 6-8 grade band
    - Applies knowledge of Greek or Latin roots to determine the meaning of a word in the 9-12 grade band
    - Uses a variety of morphological elements to determine precise word meaning or use

• Inferences, Conclusions
    - Draws conclusions using specialized reference materials

• Reference Materials
    - Uses a dictionary definition to confirm initial understanding of word meaning
    - Uses context and dictionary, glossary, or thesaurus entries to determine word meaning

• Text Features, Visuals
    - Draws conclusions using specialized reference materials

• Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words
    - Determines which meaning of a multiple-meaning word in the 6-8 grade band fits a given context
    - Determines which meaning of a multiple-meaning word in the 9-12 grade band fits a given context
    - Uses context in a grade 05 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 06 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 07 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 08 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 09 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 10 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 11 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 12 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context to confirm initial understanding of words or phrases
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of a phrase
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of words in the 9‑12 grade band and above

• Word Nuances and Shades of Meaning
    - Analyzes nuances in meaning among related words to determine which fits a given context
    - Understands precise connotations of words with similar meanings
    - Uses context to determine connotation of words

RIT 241-250

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Literary Text

Analyze Point of View, Features, and Structure

• Author’s Craft: Style, Voice, Tone, Mood
    - Analyzes how mood affects plot in literary text

• Author's Craft: Perspective, Attitude
    - Evaluates narrator's attitude in literary text to make an inference
    - Understands the point an author makes in a satirical passage

• Plot
    - Analyzes how mood affects plot in literary text

• Point of View
    - Describes how an ironic point of view affects meaning
    - Describes the technique an author uses to develop point of view
    - Understands how point of view differs among characters

• Text Structure: Organization
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to meaning in literary text
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to plot in literary text
    - Analyzes how specific parts of a poem contribute to its meaning
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in literary text

Informational Text

Analyze Point of View, Purpose, Features, and Structure

• Assertions and Claims
    - Determines author's main argument or claim
    - Evaluates evidence used to support claims in argumentative text
    - Evaluates evidence used to support claims in informational text
    - Identifies reasons that support a claim in persuasive text
    - Recognizes when a claim is supported by evidence

• Author's Craft: Perspective, Attitude
    - Analyzes how author's viewpoint or attitude is conveyed in literary nonfiction
    - Determines author's attitude in informational text
    - Determines author's attitude in persuasive text
    - Evaluates author's attitude in informational text to make an inference
    - Understands how an author conveys attitude or perspective in informational text

• Author's Craft: Persuasive and Rhetorical Techniques
    - Analyzes how word choice or rhetorical techniques advance purpose
    - Analyzes techniques used by an author to illustrate or emphasize ideas
    - Recognizes the use of parallelism

• Inferences, Conclusions
    - Evaluates author's attitude in informational text to make an inference

• Literary Elements in Nonfiction
    - Analyzes the effect of dialogue in literary nonfiction

• Purpose
    - Analyzes how word choice or rhetorical techniques advance purpose
    - Determines specific purpose of a speech

• Supporting Details
    - Determines details that support a claim in literary nonfiction

• Text Structure: Organization
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to meaning in informational text
    - Analyzes how specific paragraphs contribute to meaning in literary nonfiction
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in informational text
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in literary nonfiction
    - Analyzes the use of a description structure in informational text
    - Determines specific purpose of a subsection in informational text
    - Determines specific purpose of a subsection in literary nonfiction
    - Determines the relationship between parts of a text

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

• Academic and Content Vocabulary
    - Demonstrates understanding of academic vocabulary
    - Demonstrates understanding of domain‑specific vocabulary
    - Determines the meaning of academic words or phrases in context
    - Determines the meaning of domain‑specific words or phrases in context

• Author’s Craft: Style, Voice, Tone, Mood
    - Analyzes the effect of allusion on tone
    - Analyzes the effect of word choice on meaning or tone
    - Analyzes tone in poetry
    - Determines tone in context

• Author's Craft: Figurative Language
    - Analyzes the effect of alliteration
    - Analyzes the effect of figurative language in context
    - Determines the meaning of a figurative word or phrase in context
    - Interprets allusion in context
    - Interprets euphemism in context
    - Interprets metaphor in context
    - Interprets simile in context

• Author's Craft: Imagery, Description
    - Analyzes the effect of imagery in context

• Base Words, Affixes
    - Applies knowledge of Greek or Latin roots to determine the meaning of a word in the 6-8 grade band
    - Uses a variety of morphological elements to determine precise word meaning or use

• Reference Materials
    - Uses context and dictionary, glossary, or thesaurus entries to determine word meaning

• Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words
    - Determines which meaning of a multiple-meaning word in the 6-8 grade band fits a given context
    - Uses context in a grade 05 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context in a grade 08 passage to determine word meaning
    - Uses context to confirm initial understanding of words or phrases
    - Uses context to determine the meaning of words in the 9‑12 grade band and above

• Word Nuances and Shades of Meaning
    - Analyzes nuances in meaning among related words to determine which fits a given context
    - Understands precise connotations of words with similar meanings
    - Uses context to determine connotation of words

RIT 251-260

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Informational Text

Analyze Point of View, Purpose, Features, and Structure

• Assertions and Claims
    - Evaluates evidence used to support claims in informational text

• Author's Craft: Perspective, Attitude
    - Evaluates author's attitude in informational text to make an inference
    - Understands how an author conveys attitude or perspective in informational text

• Inferences, Conclusions
    - Evaluates author's attitude in informational text to make an inference

• Supporting Details
    - Determines details that support a claim in literary nonfiction

• Text Structure: Organization
    - Analyzes how specific sentences contribute to meaning in literary nonfiction
    - Determines specific purpose of a subsection in informational text

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

• Academic and Content Vocabulary
    - Determines the meaning of academic words or phrases in context

• Author’s Craft: Style, Voice, Tone, Mood
    - Analyzes the effect of word choice on meaning or tone
    - Determines tone in context

• Author's Craft: Figurative Language
    - Analyzes the effect of figurative language in context
    - Determines the meaning of a figurative word or phrase in context

• Author's Craft: Imagery, Description
    - Analyzes the effect of imagery in context

• Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words
    - Determines which meaning of a multiple-meaning word in the 6-8 grade band fits a given context

• Word Nuances and Shades of Meaning
    - Uses context to determine connotation of words

RIT 261-270

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Informational Text

Analyze Point of View, Purpose, Features, and Structure

• Text Structure: Organization
    - Determines specific purpose of a subsection in informational text

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

• Author's Craft: Figurative Language
    - Analyzes the effect of figurative language in context