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Informational Text: Key Ideas and Details

Key ideas and details: In informational texts, understand explicitly stated ideas; cite textual evidence, make inferences, support conclusions; determine central ideas or themes, retell and summarize with key supporting details and ideas; compare and contrast important points and main ideas within and across texts; analyze development and interaction of individuals, events and ideas.

Informational Text: Craft and Structure

Craft and Structure: In informational text, analyze how word choice (e.g., the language of a court opinion vs that of a newspaper, analogies, allusions) affects the meaning and tone of a text; analyze how authors use and refine the meaning of key terms; analyze and evaluate text structure, including the relationship of parts to each other and to the whole, the development and refinement of ideas or claims, and the effectiveness of a given structure for an exposition or argument. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence. Compare and contrast different authors’ presentations of similar ideas.

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