HS Chinese Guide

Grades 6–8, Reading Reading Reporting Categories Key Ideas and Details Questions in this category test students’ ability to read texts closely in order to determine central ideas and themes; summarize information and ideas accurately; understand relationships; and draw logical inferences and conclusions.

ACT Readiness Standards: Snapshot of Expected Skills

Utah Core Standards: Snapshot of Expected Skills

What could this look like in practices in grades 6-8?*

CLR 402 Draw logical conclusions in somewhat challenging passages IDT 501 Infer a central idea or theme in somewhat challenging passages or their paragraphs IDT 503 Summarize key supporting ideas and details in more challenging passages REL 502 Understand implied or subtly stated comparative relationships in somewhat challenging passages REL 504 Understand implied or

6.RL/I.1, 7.RL/I.1, 8.RL/I.1 Read closely to determine what a text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 6.RL/I.2, 7.RL/I.2, 8.RL/I.2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. 7.RI.3 Analyze the relationships and interactions among individuals, events, and/or ideas in a text.

• Read relevant and interesting literary texts (e.g., short stories, novels, memoirs, poems, and personal essays) that are appropriately quantitatively and qualitatively complex. • Read relevant and interesting informational text about the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities that are quantitatively and qualitatively complex. • Ask text-dependent questions that require a close, careful reading of the text. • Ask students to find evidence in text by paying attention to specific details in text that help create the claim or central idea. • Encourage active reading with text markers and annotations. • Ask students to trace character development through literature by looking for specific places in the text that highlight how the characters change. • Ask students to examine events in text to determine the primary cause(s) and final outcome(s).

subtly stated cause-effect relationships in somewhat challenging passages

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