ELA-09.RI.02

9th Grade ELA Targeted Standards
(RI) Reading Information Strand
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details

ELA-09.RI.02 Determine and analyze a theme and/or central idea over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details.

Student Learning Targets:

Knowledge Targets

  • I can locate and define the central idea in a piece of informational text.

Reasoning Targets

  • I can analyze how specific details support the central idea.

Skills (Performance) Targets

  • I can indicate how specific details support the central idea.

Product Targets

 

Rubric - Resources

Proficiency Scale

Measurement of Progress

 Key Ideas and Details: STUDENTS CITE STRONG AND THOROUGH TEXTUAL EVIDENCE as they

  • RI9-10.1 Read closely to comprehend texts of grade-level appropriate complexity: a. Determine what the texts says explicitly and implicitly  b. Provide an objective summary of the text.

  • RI9-10.2 Determine and analyze a theme and/or central idea over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details.

  • RI9-10.3 Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and/or interact over the course of a text.
Sample Activity
Advanced 

In addition to expectations of proficiency, student provides consistent evidence of in-depth inferences and applications that go beyond what was taught and expected.

The student 

  • elicits strong and thorough textual evidence (often cross referencing with other sources) while insightfully analyzing the development of theme(s) development and/or  
  • central idea(s) as well as the impact of the author’s choices on structure and development.
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Proficient

The student

  • relies on strong and thorough textual evidence while

    • determining what the text says explicitly and implicitly.

    • analyzing the development of theme(s) and/or central idea(s).

    • analyzing the structure of the text and how the author develops individuals, events, and ideas.

  • provides an objective summary.  

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Progressing 

There are no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes; however the student exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes.

The student

  • summarizes key ideas of a text, but struggles to consistently and relevantly draw from the text to support analysis.

  • recognizes or recalls specific terminology that relates to literature, such as:

    • textual evidence, setting, plot, characterization, theme vs. central idea and topic, analysis, summary

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Novice With help, a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes and some of the more complex ideas and processes. -

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