Social Studies HS Guide

Grades K–5, Reading

What could this look like in practices in grades K–5?* ● Read relevant and interesting literary texts (e.g., short stories, novels, memoirs, poems, and personal essays) that are quantitatively and qualitatively complex. ● Read relevant and interesting informational texts about 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. • Encourage active reading with text markers and annotations. ● Ask students to find evidence in a text by paying attention to specific details in text that help develop the main idea. ● Ask students to visualize characters, settings, or events and sketch relevant and challenging scenes with details from the text. ● Ask students to search for patterns or clues that indicate cause-effect relationships.

ACT Readiness Standards: Snapshot of Expected Skills CLR 302 Draw simple logical conclusions in somewhat challenging passages IDT 402 Identify a clear central idea or theme in somewhat challenging passages or their paragraphs IDT 403 Summarize key supporting ideas and details in somewhat challenging passages REL 301 Identify clear comparative relationships between main characters in somewhat challenging literary narratives REL 403 Identify clear cause-effect relationships in somewhat challenging passages

Utah Core Standards: Snapshot of Expected Skills

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.

3.RL.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. 4.RL.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. 5.RL.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. 3.RL/I.2, 4.RL/I.2, 5.RL/I.2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. 3.RI.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect . 4.RI.3 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific

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