Middle school students will work toward mastering the following reading standards:
Standard 1: Building and Monitor Understanding
Performance Indicators:
- Cite text to show understanding
- Cite text to make inferences
- Literal meaning
- Figurative meaning
- Word choice analysis
Standard 2: Analyze Central Idea, Theme, and Character Development
Performance Indicators:
- Theme/central idea
- Development of theme/central idea
- Summarize a text
- Analyze character development
- Cite evidence to support character development analysis
Standard 3: Analyze How Point of View and the Individual Parts or Structure of a Text Contribute to Meaning
Performance Indicators:
- Text structure analysis (narrative)
- Text structure analysis (informational)
- Point of view (narrative)
- Point of view (informational)
Standard 4: Critique an Argument and Analyze Ideas Across Texts
Performance Indicators:
- Analyze ideas across texts (mediums)
- Critique an argument
- Analyze ideas across texts with different authors
Adapted from: http://corestandards.org/ela
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