To build a foundation for college and career readiness, students must read widely and deeply from a broad range of high-quality, increasingly challenging literary and informational texts. Through extensive reading of stories, dramas, poems, and myths from diverse cultures and different time periods, students gain literary and cultural knowledge as well as familiarity with various text structures and elements. By reading texts in history/social studies, science, and other disciplines, students build a foundation of knowledge in those fields that will also give them the background to be better readers in all content areas. Students can gain this foundation only when the curriculum is intentionally and coherently structured to develop rich content knowledge within and across grades. Students also acquire the habits of reading independently and closely, which are essential to future success.
K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9-10 11-12
Key Ideas
& Details
3
2
1
K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9-10 11-12
K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9-10 11-12
K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9-10 11-12
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5
Craft &
Structure
4
Integration of Knowledge
& Ideas
9
8
7
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
10
The following standards offer a focus for instruction each year and help ensure that students gain adequate exposure to a range of texts and tasks. Rigor is also infused through the requirement that students read increasingly complex texts through the grades. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year’s grade-specific standards and retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades. (Make this into a rollover)
Reading Informational Text
RI
Reading Literature
