NRS Level 6 Reading

High Adult Secondary Education (Grade Levels 11.0 – 12.9)

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Key Ideas and Details: Information

- • comprehension by citing strong, thorough textual evidence to • comprehension by citing strong, thorough textual evidence to support analysis of the text, including both explicit and inferential ideas, and by identifying direct statements, implied ideas, and areas of uncertainty.
- • comprehension by determining a text’s central ideas, identifying • comprehension by determining a text’s central ideas, identifying how it emerges and develops throughout the text, analyzing how ideas interact and build on each other, and providing an objective summary of the text.
- • comprehension by analyzing complex sets of ideas and sequences • comprehension by analyzing complex sets of ideas and sequences of events and explaining how they interact and develop throughout the text.

Craft and Structure: Information

- • comprehension by determining the meaning of words and phrases • comprehension by determining the meaning of words and phrases in a text, including figurative, connotative and technical meanings; analyze the author’s use of a key term throughout the text (e.g., Madison’s definition of faction in Federalist No. 10).
- • comprehension by analyzing the effectiveness of a text’s structure, • comprehension by analyzing the effectiveness of a text’s structure, how it is used to develop a theme or argument, and whether it makes points clearly and convincingly.
- • comprehension by determining an author’s point of view or purpose • comprehension by determining an author’s point of view or purpose in a text, particularly in terms of how rhetoric, style, and content contributes to the effectiveness or beauty of the text.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Information

- • comprehension by integrating multiple sources of information from • comprehension by integrating multiple sources of information from a variety of media and formats to address an issue or solve a problem.
- • comprehension by evaluating the reasoning in key U.S. texts in • comprehension by evaluating the reasoning in key U.S. texts in regard to constitutional principles, use of legal reasoning, and premises, purposes, and arguments (including U.S. Supreme Court opinions and dissents, The Federalist, and presidential addresses).
- • comprehension by making decisions that compare and contrast • comprehension by making decisions that compare and contrast facts, as distinct from opinions.
- • comprehension by analyzing themes, purposes, and rhetoric from • comprehension by analyzing themes, purposes, and rhetoric from key seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century U.S. documents of historical and literary significance.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: Information

- • comprehension by reading and comprehending level appropriate • comprehension by reading and comprehending level appropriate literary nonfiction texts independently and proficiently.
- • comprehension by identifying assumptions, purposes, • comprehension by identifying assumptions, purposes, outcomes/solutions, and propaganda in a diversity of formats and media.

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