Reading Informational Text

Virginia SOL 11.RI.2

Examine craft and style in informational texts.

What students need to be able to do

  • Examine how textual elements and organizational patterns contribute to meaning and author's purpose.
  • Analyze and interpret key terms and ideas in historical, scientific, technical, and employment texts.
  • Recognize and analyze the author's purpose and impact of ambiguity, contradiction, paradox, oxymoron, irony, sarcasm, overstatement, and understatement.