English Language Arts Standard
English Language Arts Standards: Reading: Informational Text.
Standard 2: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
English Language Arts Standards: Reading: Informational Text.
Standard 8: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
English Language Arts Standards: Speaking & Listening.
Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard 1a: Come to discussions prepared, having read or researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
English Language Arts Standards: Speaking & Listening.
Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard 3: Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence and identifying when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
English Language Arts Standards: Reading: Informational Text.
Standard 5: Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept.