Reading Standards
Pine City High School
Reading Benchmarks
- Literature
- Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
- Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text.
- Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact.
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text.
- Analyze how a drama's or poem's form or structure contributes to its meaning.
- Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters in a text.
- Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed or multimedia version
- Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.
1. Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences
drawn from the text.
2. Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of text.
3. Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text.
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text.
5. Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to whole.
6. Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze the author's position on the piece.
7. Compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text.
8. Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text.
9. Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information.