Reading Informational Text
Virginia SOL 8.RI.1
Identify main ideas, summarize, analyze author's unfolding of ideas, and evaluate arguments in informational texts.
What students need to be able to do
- Creating main idea statements
- Providing accurate summaries
- Clarifying relationships among key details and ideas or events
- Analyzing how authors unfold perspectives or series of ideas or events
- Understanding order in which points are made
- Understanding how points are introduced and developed
- Understanding connections drawn between points
- Tracing and evaluating arguments and specific claims
- Assessing whether reasoning and evidence are relevant and sufficient