Analyzing and Creating Text Features and Technique
• Order sequences of events in texts at a satisfactory level
• Make inferences about plot/sequence of events, characters/people, settings, or ideas in texts at a satisfactory level
• Analyze relationships within texts, including how events are important in relation to plot or conflict; how people, ideas, or events are connected, developed, or distinguished; how events contribute to theme or relate to key idea; or how a setting or context shapes structure and meaning
• Analyze the roles that details play in complex literary or informational texts at a satisfactory level
• Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining
connotative and figurative meanings from context
• Analyze how meaning or tone is affected when one word is replaced with another, at a satisfactory level
• Analyze the impact of specific words, phrases, or figurative language in text, with a focus on an author’s intent to convey information or construct an argument
• Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of ideas
• Analyze the structural relationship between adjacent sections of text at a satisfactory level
• Analyze transitional language or signal words and determine how they refine meaning,
emphasize certain ideas, or reinforce an author’s purpose, at a satisfactory level
• Analyze how the structure of a paragraph, section, or passage shapes meaning, emphasizes key ideas, or supports an author’s purpose
• Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in texts, at a satisfactory level
• Infer an author’s implicit as well as explicit purposes based on details in a text, at a satisfactory level
• Analyze how an author uses rhetorical techniques to advance his or her point of view or achieve a specific purpose
Using Evidence to Understand, Analyze, and Create Arguments
• Comprehend explicit details and main ideas in a text at a satisfactory level
• Summarize details and ideas in text at a satisfactory level
• Make sentence-level inferences about details that support main ideas at a satisfactory level
• Infer implied main ideas in paragraphs and whole texts at a satisfactory level
• Determine which details support a main idea at a satisfactory level
• Identify a theme, or identify which element(s) in a text support a theme at a satisfactory level
• Make evidence-based generalizations or hypotheses based on details in text, including clarifications, extensions, or applications of main ideas to new situations, at a satisfactory level
• Draw conclusions or make generalizations that require synthesis of multiple main ideas at a satisfactory level
• Identify specific pieces of evidence an author uses in support of claims or conclusions at a satisfactory level
• Evaluate the relevance and sufficiency of evidence offered in support of a claim at a satisfactory level
Applying Knowledge of English Language Conventions and Usage
• Edit to correct errors involving frequently confused words at a satisfactory level
• Edit to correct errors in pronoun usage at a satisfactory level
• Edit to eliminate dangling or misplaced modifiers or illogical word order at a satisfactory level
• Edit to correct errors in subject-verb or pronoun-antecedent agreement in more complicated
situations at a satisfactory level
• Edit to eliminate wordiness or awkward sentence construction at a satisfactory level
• Edit to ensure effective use of transitional words, conjunctive adverbs, and other words and
phrases that support logic and clarity, at a satisfactory level
• Edit to ensure correct use of capitalization at a satisfactory level
• Edit to eliminate run-on sentences, fused sentences, or sentence fragments at a satisfactory
level
• Edit to ensure correct use of apostrophes with possessive nouns at a satisfactory level
• Edit to ensure correct use of punctuation at a satisfactory level