* RL K.1 - With prompting and * RL 1.1 Ask and answer * RL 2.1 Ask and answer questions * RL 3.1 Ask and answer questions * RL 4.1 Refer to details and examples in support, ask and answer questions questions about key details in a such as who, what, where, when, to demonstrate understanding of a a text when explaining what the text says about key details in a text. (K3, text. (1.3, 1.7) why, and how to demonstrate text, referring explicitly to the text as explicitly and when drawing inferring from K5, K6, K7) understanding of key details in a text. the basis for the answers. the text. * RL 1.2 Retell stories, (2.3, 2.6) (EDI pg. 13) (SBAC item, EDI pg. 13) * RLK.2 - With prompting and including key details, and support, retell familiar stories, demonstrate understanding of * RL 2.2 Recount stories, including * RL 3.2 Recount stories, including * RL 4.2 Determine a theme of a story, including key details. (K3, K5, K6, their central message or lesson. fables and folktales from diverse fables, folktales, and myths from drama, or poem from details in the text; K7) (1.3, 1.7) cultures and determine their central diverse cultures; determine the central summarize the text. message, lesson or moral. (2.4, 2.7) message, lesson, or moral and explain (SBAC item, EDI pg. 14) RL K.4 Ask and answer questions RL 1.5 Explain major how it is conveyed through key details about unknown words in a text. differences between books that RL 2.5 Describe the overall in the text. RL 4.3 Describe in depth a character, (K3, K5, K6, K7) tell stories and books that are structure of a story, including (SBAC item, EDI pg. 11, 14, 36, 37) setting, or event in a story, or a drama, giving information, drawing on a describing how the beginning drawing on specific details in the text (e.g, RL K.9 With prompting and wide reading of a range of text introduces the story and the ending RL 3.3 Describe characters in a characters thoughts, words or actions). support, compare and contrast the types. (1.6, 1.7) concludes the action. (2.4, 2.7) story and explain how their actions (SBAC item, EDI pg. 12, 30, 31) adventures and experiences of contribute to the sequence of events. characters in familiar stories. RL 1.9 Compare and contrast RL 2.9 Compare and contrast two (SBAC item, EDI pg. 12, 13, 16, 35, RL 4.6 Compare and contrast the point of the adventures and experiences or more versions of the same story by 38) view from which different studies are of characters in stories (1.3, 1.4, different cultures. (2.3, 2.6) narrated, including the difference between 1.7) RL 3.6 Distinguish their own point first and third person narrations. of view from that of the narrator or (SBAC item) those of the characters. (SBAC item) RL 4.9 Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., RL 3.9 Compare and contrast the the opposition of good and evil) and themes, settings, and plots of stories patterns of events (e.g. the quest) in stories, written by the same author about myths, and traditional literature from similar characters (e.g. books from a different cultures. (SBAC item) series).
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* RL 5.1 Quote accurately from a text when * RL 6.1 Cite textual evidence to support * RL 7.1 Cite several pieces of textual * RL 8.1 Cite textual evidence that most explaining what the text says explicitly and analysis of what the text says explicitly as well evidence to support analysis of what the text strongly supports an analysis of what the text when drawing inferences from the text. as inferences drawn from the text. says explicitly as well as the inferences drawn says explicitly as well as inferences drawn (SBAC item, EDI pg. 13) (SBAC item, EDI pg. 19, 22) from the text. from the text. (EDI pg. 24, 26) (SBAC item, EDI pg. 22, 25) * RL 5.2 Determine a theme of a story, * RL 6.2 Determine a theme or central idea drama or poem from details in the text, of a text and how it is conveyed through * RL 7.2 Determine a theme or central idea including how characters in a story or drama particular details; provide a summary of the of a text and analyze its development over the * RL 8.2 Determine the theme or central idea respond to challenges or how the speaker in a text distinct from personal opinions or course of the text; provide an objective of a text and analyze its development over the poem reflects upon a tropic; summarize the judgments. summary of the text. course of the text, including its relationships to text. (EDI pg. 24) (SBAC item, EDI pg. 21) the characters, settings and plot; provide an (SBAC item, EDI pg. 16) objective summary of the text. RL 6.3 Describe how a particular storys or (EDI pg. 19) RL 5.3 Compare and contrast two or more dramas plot unfolds in a series of episodes as RL 7.3 Analyze how particular elements of a characters, settings, or events in a story or well as how the characters respond or change story or drama interact (i.e. how setting shapes drama, drawing on specific details in the text as the plot moves toward a resolution. the characters or plot). RL 8.3 Analyze how particular lines of (e.g., how characters interact). (SBAC item, EDI pg. 13, 20) (EDI pg. 24) dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel (SBAC item) the action, reveal aspects of a character, or RL 6.4 Determine the meaning of words and provoke a decision. RL 5.6 Describe how a narrators point of view phrases as they are used in a text, including RL 7.4 Determine the meaning of words and (SBAC item, EDI pg. 20, 21, 25, 28) influences how events are described. figurative and connotative meanings; analyze phrases as they are used in a text, including (SBAC item, EDI pg. 15) the impact of a specific word choice on figurative and connotative meanings; analyze meaning and tone. the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of RL 8.4 Determine the meaning of words and RL 5.9 Compare and contrast the stories in (SBAC item, EDI pg. 21, 23) sounds (i.e. alliteration) on a specific verse or phases as they are used in a text, including the same genre (e.g, mysteries and adventure stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama. figurative language and connotative meaning stories) on their approaches to similar themes RL 6.5 Analyze how a particular sentence, (SBAC item, EDI pg. 23) and tone, including analogies or allusions to and topics. chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall other texts. structure of a text and contributes to the (SBAC item, EDI pg. 23, 26, 27) development of the theme, setting or plot. RL 7.5 Analyze how a dramas or poems (EDI pg. 18) form or structure (soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning. RL 6.6 Analyze how differences in the point of view of the characters and the audience or RL 7.9 Analyze a case in which two or more reader (e.g., created through the use of texts provide conflicting information on the dramatic irony) crate such effects as suspense same topic and identify where the texts or humor). disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.
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* RL 9.1. Cite strong and thorough textual * RL 10.1. Cite strong and thorough textual * RL 11.1. Cite strong and thorough textual * RL 12.2. Determine two or more themes or evidence to support analysis of what the text evidence to support analysis of what the text evidence to support analysis of what the text central ideas of a text and analyze their says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from development over the course of the text, the text. the text. the text, including determining where the text including how they interact and build on one (SBAC item, EDI pg. 35) (SBAC item, EDI pg. 35) leaves matters uncertain. another to produce a complex account; provide (SBAC item, EDI pg. 35) an objective summary of the text. * RL 9.2. Determine a theme or central idea of * RL 10.2. Determine a theme or central idea of (EDI pg. 28, 34) a text and analyze in detail its development a text and analyze in detail its development * RL 11.2. Determine two or more themes or over the course of the text, including how it over the course of the text, including how it central ideas of a text and analyze their RL 12.3. Analyze the impact of the authors emerges and is shaped and refined by specific emerges and is shaped and refined by specific development over the course of the text, choices regarding how to develop and relate details; provide an objective summary of the details; provide an objective summary of the including how they interact and build on one elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a text. text another to produce a complex account; provide story is set, how the action is ordered, how the (SBAC item, EDI pg. 28, 34) (SBAC item, EDI pg. 28, 34) an objective summary of the text. characters/archetypes are introduced and (EDI pg. 28, 34) developed). CA RL 9.4. Determine the meaning of words and RL 10.3. Analyze how complex characters (SBAC item, EDI pg. 32, 33) phrases as they are used in the text, including (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting RL 11.5. Analyze how an authors choices figurative and connotative meanings; analyze motivations) develop over the course of a text, concerning how to structure specific parts of a RL 12.5. Analyze how an authors choices the cumulative impact of specific word choices interact with other characters, and advance the text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a concerning how to structure specific parts of a on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language plot or develop the theme. story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a (EDI pg. 32, 33) resolution) contribute to its overall structure story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic formal or informal tone). (See grade 910 and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact. resolution) contribute to its overall structure Language standards 46 for additional (SBAC item, EDI pg. 31) and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact. RL 10.6. Analyze a particular point of view or expectations.) CA cultural experience reflected in a work of (SBAC item, EDI pg. 31) (SBAC item, EDI pg. 29, 30) RL 11.6. Analyze a case in which grasping literature from outside the United States, point of view requires distinguishing what is drawing on a wide reading of world literature RL 12.6. Analyze a case in which grasping RL 9.5. Analyze how an authors choices directly stated in a text from what is really point of view requires distinguishing what is concerning how to structure a text, order meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or RL 10.9. Analyze how an author draws on and directly stated in a text from what is really events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and understatement). transforms source material in a specific work meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic understatement) create such effects as mystery, tension, or RL 11.7. Analyze multiple interpretations of a from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author surprise. story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live draws on a play by Shakespeare). RL 12.7. Analyze multiple interpretations of a (SBAC item, EDI pg. 31) production of a play or recorded novel or story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live poetry), evaluating how each version interprets production of a play or recorded novel or the source text. (Include at least one play by poetry), evaluating how each version interprets Shakespeare and one play by an American the source text. (Include at least one play by dramatist.) Shakespeare and one play by an American dramatist.)