Reading Skills and Stratagies
Iowa Common Core State Standards 2011
Standard ID
Standard Text
R
RL
Reading
Literature
Key Ideas and Details
Read closely to determine what the 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.
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as
inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
RL.CCR.1
RL.11-12.1
RL.CCR.2
RL.11-12.2
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The Strategy Focus: Inferencing
Literary Text -Memoir: excerpt from The Cruise
of the Snark
Reading Strategy Lesson: Making Inferences
Reading Strategy Lesson: Previewing and Making
Predictions
Short Story: "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting Vonnegut
details and ideas.
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of
the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an
objective summary of the text.
Literary Text -Memoir: excerpt from The Cruise
of
theStory:
Snark "The Colomber" by Dino Buzzati
Short
Short Story: "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt
Vonnegut
Skills Lesson: Main Idea and Paraphrasing
Reading Strategy Lesson: Summarizing
The Raven and the First Men: The Beginnings of
the Haida
Literary Text -Short Story: Liam O'Flaherty - The
Sniper
The Strategy Focus: Summarizing
Short Story: "The Necklace" by Guy de
Maupassant
Short Story: "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier
Enuma Elish and Marduk's Reign
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Reading Skills and Stratagies
Iowa Common Core State Standards 2011
Standard ID
Standard Text
Edgenuity Lesson Name
RL.CCR.3
RL.11-12.3
Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or
drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and
developed).
Skills Lesson: Structure
Short Story: "The Colomber" by Dino Buzzati
Skills Lesson: Author's Perspective and Tone
Short Story: Everyday Use
Skills Lesson: Word Choice, Voice, and Tone
Literary -Short Story: Sherlock Holmes - The
Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
Short Story: "The Red-headed League" by Arthur
Conan Doyle
Short Story: "The Necklace" by Guy de
Maupassant
Short Story: "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier
Short Story: "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt
Vonnegut
Enuma Elish and Marduk's Reign
IA.1
Employ the full range of research-based comprehension strategies, including making connections,
determining importance, questioning, visualizing, making inferences, summarizing, and monitoring for
comprehension.
The Strategy Focus: Inferencing
Literary Text -Memoir: excerpt from The Cruise
of the Snark
Skills Lesson: Main Idea and Paraphrasing
Reading Strategy Lesson: Summarizing
The Raven and the First Men: The Beginnings of
the Haida
Literary Text -Short Story: Liam O'Flaherty - The
Sniper
Reading Strategy Lessons: Asking Questions
Autobiography: from Black Boy by Richard
Wright
Skills Lesson: Structure
Short Story: "The Colomber" by Dino Buzzati
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Reading Skills and Stratagies
Standard ID
IA.1
IA.2
Iowa Common Core State Standards 2011
Standard Text
Employ the full range of research-based comprehension strategies, including making connections,
determining importance, questioning, visualizing, making inferences, summarizing, and monitoring for
comprehension.
(Cont'd.)
Edgenuity Lesson Name
Memoir: From Night by Elie Wiesel
Reading Strategy Lesson: Locating Information
and Text Structure
Wartime Columns: Ernie Pyle
Reading Strategy Lesson: Making Inferences
Reading Strategy Lesson: Previewing and Making
Predictions
Reading Strategy Lesson: Organizational Patterns
Literary Text -Poetry: Looking, Walking, Being
Read on-level text, both silently and orally, at an appropriate rate with accuracy and fluency to support
comprehension.
Literary Text -Short Story: Liam O'Flaherty - The
Sniper
Literary Text -Memoir: excerpt from The Cruise
of the Snark
Literary -Short Story: Sherlock Holmes - The
Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
Literary Text -Poetry: Looking, Walking, Being
RL.CCR.4
RL.11-12.4
Craft and Structure
Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and
figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and
connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words
with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful.
Short Story: "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt
Vonnegut
The Role of Vocabulary
Literary -Short Story: Sherlock Holmes - The
Adventure
the Sussex
Vampire
Short Story:of"The
Necklace"
by Guy de
Maupassant
Short Story: "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier
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Reading Skills and Stratagies
Iowa Common Core State Standards 2011
Standard ID
Standard Text
Edgenuity Lesson Name
RL.CCR.5
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text
(e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
RL.11-12.5
Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of
where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall
structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
Skills Lesson: Structure
Short Story: "The Colomber" by Dino Buzzati
Skills Lesson: Author's Perspective and Tone
Short Story: Everyday Use
Skills Lesson: Word Choice, Voice, and Tone
Literary -Short Story: Sherlock Holmes - The
Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
Short Story: "The Red-headed League" by Arthur
Conan Doyle
Short Story: "The Necklace" by Guy de
Maupassant
Short Story: "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier
Short Story: "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier
Short Story: "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt
Vonnegut
Enuma Elish and Marduk's Reign
RL.CCR.6
RL.11-12.6
Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from
what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).
Short Story: "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt
Vonnegut
Short Story: "The Colomber" by Dino Buzzati
RL.CCR.7
RL.11-12.7
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and
quantitatively, as well as in words.
Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or
recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version interprets the source text.
Memoir: From Night by Elie Wiesel
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Reading Skills and Stratagies
Iowa Common Core State Standards 2011
Standard ID
Standard Text
RL.CCR.10
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
RL.11-12.10
Edgenuity Lesson Name
By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the
grades 11-CCR text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high
end of the grades 11-CCR text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Literary Text -Memoir: excerpt from The Cruise
of the Snark
The Raven and the First Men: The Beginnings of
the Haida
Literary Text -Short Story: Liam O'Flaherty - The
Sniper
Short Story: "The Colomber" by Dino Buzzati
Memoir: From Night by Elie Wiesel
Short Story: Everyday Use
Literary -Short Story: Sherlock Holmes - The
Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
Short Story: "The Red-headed League" by Arthur
Conan Doyle
Short Story: "The Necklace" by Guy de
Maupassant
Short Story: "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier
Short Story: "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt
Vonnegut
Enuma Elish and Marduk's Reign
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Reading Skills and Stratagies
Iowa Common Core State Standards 2011
Standard ID
Standard Text
RI
Informational Text
Key Ideas and Details
RI.CCR.1
Read closely to determine what the 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.
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as
inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
RI.11-12.1
Edgenuity Lesson Name
The Strategy Focus: Inferencing
Science -Physics: Shaun White and Physics
Skills Lesson: Main Idea and Paraphrasing
Essay: from In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
Reading Strategy Lessons: Asking Questions
Autobiography: from Black Boy by Richard
Wright
Wartime Columns: Ernie Pyle
Reading Strategy Lesson: Making Inferences
Reading Strategy Lesson: Previewing and Making
Predictions
RI.CCR.2
RI.11-12.2
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting
details and ideas.
Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text,
including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective
summary of the text.
Science -Physics: Shaun White and Physics
Skills Lesson: Main Idea and Paraphrasing
Essay: from In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
Persuasive Text - Article: In Defense of the Jury
System
Social Studies - The Black Death: The Disease
that Won't Die
Essay: One Million Volumes
Autobiography: from My Story by Rosa Parks
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Reading Skills and Stratagies
Iowa Common Core State Standards 2011
Standard ID
Standard Text
Edgenuity Lesson Name
RI.CCR.3
Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
RI.11-12.3
Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events
interact and develop over the course of the text.
Reading Strategy Lesson: Organizational Patterns
IA.1
Employ the full range of research-based comprehension strategies, including making connections,
determining importance, questioning, visualizing, making inferences, summarizing, and monitoring for
comprehension.
Elective - Sociology and Architecture: Green
Architecture - New Urbanism
Science - Green Science: Carbon Footprints
Online Text -Website: Eco-Site
Skills Lesson: Expository: Nonfiction
Reading Strategy Lesson: Locating Information
and Text Structure
Skills Lesson: Structure
Nonfiction: Two Authors` Perspectives of the
Writer`s Craft
Functional Text - How-to Article: How to Read
Blueprints
The Strategy Focus: Inferencing
Science -Physics: Shaun White and Physics
Skills Lesson: Main Idea and Paraphrasing
Essay: from In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
Reading Strategy Lesson: Summarizing
Persuasive Text - Article: In Defense of the Jury
System
Reading Strategy Lessons: Asking Questions
Autobiography: from Black Boy by Richard
Wright
Expository Text - Informative Article: Hollywood
and Forensic Science: CSI Syndrome
The Strategy Focus: Summarizing
Social Studies - World History: Ireland - Politics,
History, and Culture
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Reading Skills and Stratagies
Standard ID
IA.1
Iowa Common Core State Standards 2011
Standard Text
Employ the full range of research-based comprehension strategies, including making connections,
determining importance, questioning, visualizing, making inferences, summarizing, and monitoring for
comprehension.
Expository Text - Informational Article: The
Model UN
Elective - Art History: Political Cartoons
Reading Strategy Lesson: Making Inferences
Reading Strategy Lesson: Previewing and Making
Predictions
Reading Strategy Lesson: Organizational Patterns
Elective - Sociology and Architecture: Green
Architecture - New Urbanism
Science - Green Science: Carbon Footprints
Online Text -Website: Eco-Site
(Cont'd.)
IA.2
Edgenuity Lesson Name
Read on-level text, both silently and orally, at an appropriate rate with accuracy and fluency to support
comprehension.
Persuasive Text: Forensic Ethics - The Expert
Witness
Science -Physics: Shaun White and Physics
Persuasive Text - Article: In Defense of the Jury
System
Social Studies - World History: Ireland - Politics,
History, and Culture
Elective - Sociology and Architecture: Green
Architecture - New Urbanism
Persuasive Text - Editorial: Bad Bags
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Reading Skills and Stratagies
Iowa Common Core State Standards 2011
Standard ID
Standard Text
RI.CCR.4
Craft and Structure
Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and
figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
RI.11-12.4
Edgenuity Lesson Name
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative,
and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over
the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).
The Role of Vocabulary
Word Analysis
Vocabulary: Using Resources
Social Studies - The Black Death: The Disease
that Won't Die
Vocabulary: Acquiring New Words
Vocabulary: Technical and Professional Language
Autobiography: from Black Boy by Richard
Wright
Cultural Diversity: Selected Articles and Essays
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Reading Skills and Stratagies
Iowa Common Core State Standards 2011
Standard ID
Standard Text
Edgenuity Lesson Name
RI.CCR.5
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text
(e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
RI.11-12.5
Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or
argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.
Skills Lesson: The Elements of Argument
Nonfiction Text: "Save the Redwoods" by John
Muir and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Skills Lesson: Types of Evidence and Logical
Fallacies
Nonfiction Text: War Propaganda
Persuasive Text - Editorial: Bad Bags
Persuasive Text: Forensic Ethics - The Expert
Witness
Cultural Diversity: Selected Articles and Essays
Speech: The Gettysburg Address
Skills Lesson: Structure
Nonfiction: Two Authors` Perspectives of the
Writer`s Craft
Reading Strategy Lesson: Organizational Patterns
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Reading Skills and Stratagies
Iowa Common Core State Standards 2011
Standard ID
Standard Text
Edgenuity Lesson Name
RI.CCR.6
RI.11-12.6
Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective,
analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.
Speech: The Gettysburg Address
Essay: One Million Volumes
Persuasive Text - Editorial: Bad Bags
Persuasive Text: Forensic Ethics - The Expert
Witness
Cultural Diversity: Selected Articles and Essays
Skills Lesson: Types of Evidence and Logical
Fallacies
Nonfiction Text: War Propaganda
Skills Lesson: The Elements of Argument
Nonfiction Text: "Save the Redwoods" by John
Muir and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
RI.CCR.7
RI.11-12.7
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and
quantitatively, as well as in words.
Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g.,
visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem.
Wartime Columns: Ernie Pyle
Media Literacy: Bias in Media
Media Literacy: Media Bias and the Power of
Language
Nonfiction Text: War Propaganda
Functional Text - How-to Article: How to Read
Blueprints
Elective - Art History: Political Cartoons
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Reading Skills and Stratagies
Iowa Common Core State Standards 2011
Standard ID
Standard Text
Edgenuity Lesson Name
RI.CCR.8
RI.11-12.8
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as
well as theand
relevance
and
evidence.
Delineate
evaluate
thesufficiency
reasoningofinthe
seminal
U.S. texts, including the application of constitutional
principles and use of legal reasoning (e.g., in U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions and dissents) and the
premises, purposes, and arguments in works of public advocacy (e.g., The Federalist, presidential
addresses).
RI.CCR.9
Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare
the approaches the authors take.
Analyze seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century foundational U.S. documents of historical and
literary significance (including The Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, the Bill
of Rights, and Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address) for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.
Speech: The Gettysburg Address
RI.11-12.9
Speech: The Gettysburg Address
Drafting and Ratifying the Constitution
RI.CCR.10
RI.11-12.10
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 11-CCR text complexity
band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. By the end of grade 12, read
and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 11-CCR text complexity band
independently and proficiently.
Wartime Columns: Ernie Pyle
Media Literacy: Bias in Media
Media Literacy: Media Bias and the Power of
Language
Nonfiction Text: War Propaganda
Functional Text - How-to Article: How to Read
Blueprints
Elective - Art History: Political Cartoons
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