STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K12.W.1.1 (Archived) | Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.W.1.2 (Archived) | Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.W.1.3 (Archived) | Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K12.W.2.4 (Archived) | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.K12.W.2.5 (Archived) | Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.W.2.6 (Archived) | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K12.W.3.7 (Archived) | Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.W.3.8 (Archived) | Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.W.3.9 (Archived) | Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K12.W.4.10 (Archived) | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K12.SL.1.1 (Archived) | Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.SL.1.2 (Archived) | Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.SL.1.3 (Archived) | Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K12.SL.2.4 (Archived) | Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.SL.2.5 (Archived) | Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.SL.2.6 (Archived) | Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K12.R.1.1 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.R.1.2 (Archived) | Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.R.1.3 (Archived) | Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K12.R.2.4 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.R.2.5 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.R.2.6 (Archived) | Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K12.R.3.7 (Archived) | Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.R.3.8 (Archived) | Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.R.3.9 (Archived) | Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K12.R.4.10 (Archived) | Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K12.L.1.1 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.L.1.2 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K12.L.2.3 (Archived) | Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K12.L.3.4 (Archived) | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.L.3.5 (Archived) | Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.K12.L.3.6 (Archived) | Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering an unknown term important to comprehension or expression. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.RL.1.1 (Archived) | With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.K.RL.1.2 (Archived) | With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.K.RL.1.3 (Archived) | With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.RL.2.4 (Archived) | With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.K.RL.2.5 (Archived) | Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems). Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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LAFS.K.RL.2.6 (Archived) | With prompting and support, identify the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story. Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.RL.3.7 (Archived) | With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts). Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.K.RL.3.9 (Archived) | With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.RL.4.10 (Archived) | Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.RF.1.1 (Archived) | Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.RF.2.2 (Archived) | Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.RF.3.3 (Archived) | Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.RF.4.4 (Archived) | Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.W.1.1 (Archived) | Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is...). Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.K.W.1.2 (Archived) | Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.K.W.1.3 (Archived) | Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.W.2.5 (Archived) | With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.K.W.2.6 (Archived) | With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.W.3.7 (Archived) | Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions about them). Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.K.W.3.8 (Archived) | With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.SL.1.1 (Archived) | Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.K.SL.1.2 (Archived) | Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.K.SL.1.3 (Archived) | Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.SL.2.4 (Archived) | Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.K.SL.2.5 (Archived) | Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.K.SL.2.6 (Archived) | Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly. Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.RI.1.1 (Archived) | With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.K.RI.1.2 (Archived) | With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.K.RI.1.3 (Archived) | With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.RI.2.4 (Archived) | With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.K.RI.2.5 (Archived) | Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book. Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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LAFS.K.RI.2.6 (Archived) | With prompting and support, identify the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text. Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.RI.3.7 (Archived) | With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts). Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.K.RI.3.8 (Archived) | With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.K.RI.3.9 (Archived) | With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.RI.4.10 (Archived) | Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.L.1.1 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.K.L.1.2 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.K.L.3.4 (Archived) | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.K.L.3.5 (Archived) | With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.K.L.3.6 (Archived) | Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts. Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.RL.1.1 (Archived) | Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.RL.1.2 (Archived) | Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.RL.1.3 (Archived) | Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.RL.2.4 (Archived) | Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.RL.2.5 (Archived) | Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.RL.2.6 (Archived) | Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.RL.3.7 (Archived) | Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.RL.3.9 (Archived) | Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.RL.4.10 (Archived) | With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.RF.1.1 (Archived) | Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.RF.2.2 (Archived) | Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.RF.3.3 (Archived) | Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.RF.4.4 (Archived) | Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.W.1.1 (Archived) | Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1.W.1.2 (Archived) | Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1.W.1.3 (Archived) | Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.W.2.5 (Archived) | With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1.W.2.6 (Archived) | With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.W.3.7 (Archived) | Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of “how-to” books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions). Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1.W.3.8 (Archived) | With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.SL.1.1 (Archived) | Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.SL.1.2 (Archived) | Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.SL.1.3 (Archived) | Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.SL.2.4 (Archived) | Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.SL.2.5 (Archived) | Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.SL.2.6 (Archived) | Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.RI.1.1 (Archived) | Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.RI.1.2 (Archived) | Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.RI.1.3 (Archived) | Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.RI.2.4 (Archived) | Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.RI.2.5 (Archived) | Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.RI.2.6 (Archived) | Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text. Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.RI.3.7 (Archived) | Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.RI.3.8 (Archived) | Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.RI.3.9 (Archived) | Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.RI.4.10 (Archived) | With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.L.1.1 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. a. Print all upper- and lowercase letters. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.L.1.2 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1.L.3.4 (Archived) | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.L.3.5 (Archived) | With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding, word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1.L.3.6 (Archived) | Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships (e.g., I named my hamster Nibblet
because she nibbles too much because she likes
that). Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.2.RL.1.1 (Archived) | Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.RL.1.2 (Archived) | Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.2.RL.1.3 (Archived) | Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.2.RL.2.4 (Archived) | Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.RL.2.5 (Archived) | Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.RL.2.6 (Archived) | Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.2.RL.3.7 (Archived) | Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.RL.3.9 (Archived) | Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.2.RL.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.2.RF.3.3 (Archived) | Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.2.RF.4.4 (Archived) | Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.2.W.1.1 (Archived) | Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.W.1.2 (Archived) | Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.2.W.1.3 (Archived) | Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.2.W.2.5 (Archived) | With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.2.W.2.6 (Archived) | With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.2.W.3.7 (Archived) | Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations). Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.2.W.3.8 (Archived) | Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.2.SL.1.1 (Archived) | Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.2.SL.1.2 (Archived) | Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.SL.1.3 (Archived) | Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.SL.2.4 (Archived) | Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.SL.2.5 (Archived) | Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.2.SL.2.6 (Archived) | Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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LAFS.2.RI.1.1 (Archived) | Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.RI.1.2 (Archived) | Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.RI.1.3 (Archived) | Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.2.RI.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.RI.2.5 (Archived) | Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.RI.2.6 (Archived) | Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.RI.3.7 (Archived) | Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.RI.3.8 (Archived) | Describe how an author uses reasons to support specific points in a text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.2.RI.3.9 (Archived) | Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.2.RI.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.L.1.1 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.L.1.2 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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LAFS.2.L.2.3 (Archived) | Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.2.L.3.4 (Archived) | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.2.L.3.5 (Archived) | Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.2.L.3.6 (Archived) | Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy). Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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LAFS.3.RL.1.1 (Archived) | Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.RL.1.2 (Archived) | Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.RL.1.3 (Archived) | Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.RL.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.RL.2.5 (Archived) | Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.RL.2.6 (Archived) | Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.3.RL.3.7 (Archived) | Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting). Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.RL.3.9 (Archived) | Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.3.RL.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.RF.3.3 (Archived) | Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.3.RF.4.4 (Archived) | Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.3.W.1.1 (Archived) | Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.W.1.2 (Archived) | Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.3.W.1.3 (Archived) | Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.3.W.2.4 (Archived) | With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.) Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.3.W.2.5 (Archived) | With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.3.W.2.6 (Archived) | With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.W.3.7 (Archived) | Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic. Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.3.W.3.8 (Archived) | Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.3.W.4.10 (Archived) | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.3.SL.1.1 (Archived) | Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.3.SL.1.2 (Archived) | Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.SL.1.3 (Archived) | Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.SL.2.4 (Archived) | Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.SL.2.5 (Archived) | Demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace, adding visual displays and engaging audio recordings when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.3.SL.2.6 (Archived) | Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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LAFS.3.RI.1.1 (Archived) | Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.RI.1.2 (Archived) | Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.RI.1.3 (Archived) | Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.3.RI.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.RI.2.5 (Archived) | Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.RI.2.6 (Archived) | Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.3.RI.3.7 (Archived) | Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur). Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.RI.3.8 (Archived) | Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.3.RI.3.9 (Archived) | Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.RI.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.L.1.1 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.L.1.2 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.3.L.2.3 (Archived) | Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.3.L.3.4 (Archived) | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.3.L.3.5 (Archived) | Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.3.L.3.6 (Archived) | Acquire and use accurately conversational, general academic, and domain specific words and phrases as found in grade appropriate texts, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them). Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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LAFS.4.RL.1.1 (Archived) | Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.4.RL.1.2 (Archived) | Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.RL.1.3 (Archived) | Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions). Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.4.RL.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean). Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.4.RL.2.5 (Archived) | Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.RL.2.6 (Archived) | Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.RL.3.7 (Archived) | Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.4.RL.3.9 (Archived) | Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.RL.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.4.RF.3.3 (Archived) | Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.4.RF.4.4 (Archived) | Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.4.W.1.1 (Archived) | Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.W.1.2 (Archived) | Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.4.W.1.3 (Archived) | Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.4.W.2.4 (Archived) | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.) Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.W.2.5 (Archived) | With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.W.2.6 (Archived) | With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.4.W.3.7 (Archived) | Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic. Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.W.3.8 (Archived) | Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorize information, and provide a list of sources. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.W.3.9 (Archived) | Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.W.4.10 (Archived) | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.4.SL.1.1 (Archived) | Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.SL.1.2 (Archived) | Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.4.SL.1.3 (Archived) | Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.SL.2.4 (Archived) | Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.SL.2.5 (Archived) | Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.SL.2.6 (Archived) | Differentiate between contexts that call for formal English (e.g., presenting ideas) and situations where informal discourse is appropriate (e.g., small-group discussion); use formal English when appropriate to task and situation. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.4.RI.1.1 (Archived) | Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.4.RI.1.2 (Archived) | Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.4.RI.1.3 (Archived) | Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.4.RI.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.4.RI.2.5 (Archived) | Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.RI.2.6 (Archived) | Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus and the information provided. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.RI.3.7 (Archived) | Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.RI.3.8 (Archived) | Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.RI.3.9 (Archived) | Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.RI.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.4.L.1.1 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.4.L.1.2 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.4.L.2.3 (Archived) | Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.4.L.3.4 (Archived) | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 4 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.4.L.3.5 (Archived) | Demonstrate understanding of word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.4.L.3.6 (Archived) | Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases as found in grade level appropriate texts, including those that signal precise actions, emotions, or states of being (e.g., wildlife, conservation, and endangered when discussing animal preservation). Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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LAFS.5.RL.1.1 (Archived) | Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.RL.1.2 (Archived) | Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.5.RL.1.3 (Archived) | Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact). Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.RL.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.RL.2.5 (Archived) | Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.5.RL.2.6 (Archived) | Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.RL.3.7 (Archived) | Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.5.RL.3.9 (Archived) | Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.RL.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.5.RF.3.3 (Archived) | Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.5.RF.4.4 (Archived) | Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.5.W.1.1 (Archived) | Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.5.W.1.2 (Archived) | Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.W.1.3 (Archived) | Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.5.W.2.4 (Archived) | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.) Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.5.W.2.5 (Archived) | With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.5.W.2.6 (Archived) | With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.W.3.7 (Archived) | Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.W.3.8 (Archived) | Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.W.3.9 (Archived) | Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.5.W.4.10 (Archived) | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.5.SL.1.1 (Archived) | Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.5.SL.1.2 (Archived) | Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.SL.1.3 (Archived) | Summarize the points a speaker makes and explain how each claim is supported by reasons and evidence. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.SL.2.4 (Archived) | Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.SL.2.5 (Archived) | Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.SL.2.6 (Archived) | Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, using formal English when appropriate to task and situation. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.5.RI.1.1 (Archived) | Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.RI.1.2 (Archived) | Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.RI.1.3 (Archived) | Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.5.RI.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.RI.2.5 (Archived) | Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.5.RI.2.6 (Archived) | Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.5.RI.3.7 (Archived) | Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.RI.3.8 (Archived) | Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.5.RI.3.9 (Archived) | Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.5.RI.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.5.L.1.1 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.L.1.2 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.5.L.2.3 (Archived) | Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.5.L.3.4 (Archived) | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.5.L.3.5 (Archived) | Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.5.L.3.6 (Archived) | Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases as found in grade level appropriate texts, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships (e.g., however, although, nevertheless, similarly, moreover, in addition). Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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LAFS.68.RH.1.1 (Archived) | Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.68.RH.1.2 (Archived) | Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.68.RH.1.3 (Archived) | Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered). Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.68.RH.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.68.RH.2.5 (Archived) | Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.68.RH.2.6 (Archived) | Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.68.RH.3.7 (Archived) | Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.68.RH.3.8 (Archived) | Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.68.RH.3.9 (Archived) | Analyze the relationship between a primary and secondary source on the same topic. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.68.RH.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.68.RST.1.1 (Archived) | Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.68.RST.1.2 (Archived) | Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; provide an accurate summary of the text distinct from prior knowledge or opinions. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.68.RST.1.3 (Archived) | Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.68.RST.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6–8 texts and topics. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.68.RST.2.5 (Archived) | Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to an understanding of the topic. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.68.RST.2.6 (Archived) | Analyze the author’s purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.68.RST.3.7 (Archived) | Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.68.RST.3.8 (Archived) | Distinguish among facts, reasoned judgment based on research findings, and speculation in a text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.68.RST.3.9 (Archived) | Compare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia sources with that gained from reading a text on the same topic. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.68.RST.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.68.WHST.1.1 (Archived) | Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.68.WHST.1.2 (Archived) | Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.68.WHST.2.4 (Archived) | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.68.WHST.2.5 (Archived) | With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.68.WHST.2.6 (Archived) | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.68.WHST.3.7 (Archived) | Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration. Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.68.WHST.3.8 (Archived) | Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.68.WHST.3.9 (Archived) | Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.68.WHST.4.10 (Archived) | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.6.RL.1.1 (Archived) | Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.6.RL.1.2 (Archived) | Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.6.RL.1.3 (Archived) | Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.6.RL.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.RL.2.5 (Archived) | Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.RL.2.6 (Archived) | Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.6.RL.3.7 (Archived) | Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.RL.3.9 (Archived) | Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.RL.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.6.W.1.1 (Archived) | Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.W.1.2 (Archived) | Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.W.1.3 (Archived) | Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.6.W.2.4 (Archived) | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.) Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.6.W.2.5 (Archived) | With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.W.2.6 (Archived) | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.6.W.3.7 (Archived) | Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate. Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.W.3.8 (Archived) | Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.W.3.9 (Archived) | Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.6.W.4.10 (Archived) | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.6.SL.1.1 (Archived) | Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.SL.1.2 (Archived) | Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.SL.1.3 (Archived) | Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.SL.2.4 (Archived) | Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.SL.2.5 (Archived) | Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, images, music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify information. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.6.SL.2.6 (Archived) | Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.6.RI.1.1 (Archived) | Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.6.RI.1.2 (Archived) | Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.6.RI.1.3 (Archived) | Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes). Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.6.RI.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.6.RI.2.5 (Archived) | Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.RI.2.6 (Archived) | Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.6.RI.3.7 (Archived) | Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.RI.3.8 (Archived) | Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.RI.3.9 (Archived) | Compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.6.RI.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.6.L.1.1 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.6.L.1.2 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.6.L.2.3 (Archived) | Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.6.L.3.4 (Archived) | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.6.L.3.5 (Archived) | Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.6.L.3.6 (Archived) | Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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LAFS.7.RL.1.1 (Archived) | Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.RL.1.2 (Archived) | Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.7.RL.1.3 (Archived) | Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.7.RL.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.7.RL.2.5 (Archived) | Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.RL.2.6 (Archived) | Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.7.RL.3.7 (Archived) | Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film). Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.RL.3.9 (Archived) | Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.RL.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.7.W.1.1 (Archived) | Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.7.W.1.2 (Archived) | Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.7.W.1.3 (Archived) | Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.7.W.2.4 (Archived) | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.) Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.7.W.2.5 (Archived) | With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.W.2.6 (Archived) | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others, including linking to and citing sources. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.7.W.3.7 (Archived) | Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.W.3.8 (Archived) | Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.W.3.9 (Archived) | Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.7.W.4.10 (Archived) | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.7.SL.1.1 (Archived) | Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.7.SL.1.2 (Archived) | Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.SL.1.3 (Archived) | Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.7.SL.2.4 (Archived) | Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.SL.2.5 (Archived) | Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.SL.2.6 (Archived) | Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.RI.1.1 (Archived) | Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.RI.1.2 (Archived) | Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.RI.1.3 (Archived) | Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events). Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.RI.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.RI.2.5 (Archived) | Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.RI.2.6 (Archived) | Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.7.RI.3.7 (Archived) | Compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text, analyzing each medium’s portrayal of the subject (e.g., how the delivery of a speech affects the impact of the words). Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.RI.3.8 (Archived) | Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.RI.3.9 (Archived) | Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.RI.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.L.1.1 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.L.1.2 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.L.2.3 (Archived) | Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.7.L.3.4 (Archived) | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.7.L.3.5 (Archived) | Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.7.L.3.6 (Archived) | Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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LAFS.8.RL.1.1 (Archived) | Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.8.RL.1.2 (Archived) | Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.RL.1.3 (Archived) | Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.RL.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.RL.2.5 (Archived) | Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.RL.2.6 (Archived) | Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.RL.3.7 (Archived) | Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.RL.3.9 (Archived) | Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.RL.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.8.W.1.1 (Archived) | Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.W.1.2 (Archived) | Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.W.1.3 (Archived) | Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.W.2.4 (Archived) | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.) Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.W.2.5 (Archived) | With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.8.W.2.6 (Archived) | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.8.W.3.7 (Archived) | Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration. Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.W.3.8 (Archived) | Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.W.3.9 (Archived) | Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.W.4.10 (Archived) | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for
a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and
audiences. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.8.SL.1.1 (Archived) | Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.SL.1.2 (Archived) | Analyze the purpose of information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and evaluate the motives (e.g., social, commercial, political) behind its presentation. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.SL.1.3 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.SL.2.4 (Archived) | Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.SL.2.5 (Archived) | Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.SL.2.6 (Archived) | Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.8.RI.1.1 (Archived) | Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.8.RI.1.2 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.8.RI.1.3 (Archived) | Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories). Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.8.RI.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.8.RI.2.5 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.8.RI.2.6 (Archived) | Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.RI.3.7 (Archived) | Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.8.RI.3.8 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.8.RI.3.9 (Archived) | Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.8.RI.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.8.L.1.1 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.8.L.1.2 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.8.L.2.3 (Archived) | Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.8.L.3.4 (Archived) | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.8.L.3.5 (Archived) | Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.8.L.3.6 (Archived) | Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. Content Complexity: Level 1: Recall
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.RL.1.1 (Archived) | Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.910.RL.1.2 (Archived) | Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.RL.1.3 (Archived) | Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.RL.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.RL.2.5 (Archived) | Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.RL.2.6 (Archived) | Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.RL.3.7 (Archived) | Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.RL.3.9 (Archived) | Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.RL.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9–10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 9-10 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.W.1.1 (Archived) | Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.W.1.2 (Archived) | Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.W.1.3 (Archived) | Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.W.2.4 (Archived) | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.) Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.W.2.5 (Archived) | Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.W.2.6 (Archived) | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.W.3.7 (Archived) | Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.910.W.3.8 (Archived) | Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.W.3.9 (Archived) | Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.W.4.10 (Archived) | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.SL.1.1 (Archived) | Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.SL.1.2 (Archived) | Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.SL.1.3 (Archived) | Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.SL.2.4 (Archived) | Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.SL.2.5 (Archived) | Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.SL.2.6 (Archived) | Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.RI.1.1 (Archived) | Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.910.RI.1.2 (Archived) | Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.910.RI.1.3 (Archived) | Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.RI.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.RI.2.5 (Archived) | Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.RI.2.6 (Archived) | Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.RI.3.7 (Archived) | Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person’s life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.910.RI.3.8 (Archived) | Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.RI.3.9 (Archived) | Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance (e.g., Washington’s Farewell Address, the Gettysburg Address, Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech, King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”), including how they address related themes and concepts. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.RI.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 9–10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 9–10 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.RH.1.1 (Archived) | Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.910.RH.1.2 (Archived) | Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.910.RH.1.3 (Archived) | Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.RH.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.910.RH.2.5 (Archived) | Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.910.RH.2.6 (Archived) | Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.RH.3.7 (Archived) | Integrate quantitative or technical analysis (e.g., charts, research data) with qualitative analysis in print or digital text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.910.RH.3.8 (Archived) | Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author’s claims. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.910.RH.3.9 (Archived) | Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.RH.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 9–10 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.L.1.1 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.L.1.2 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.L.2.3 (Archived) | Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.L.3.4 (Archived) | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.910.L.3.5 (Archived) | Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.910.L.3.6 (Archived) | Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.RST.1.1 (Archived) | Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to the precise details of explanations or descriptions. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.910.RST.1.2 (Archived) | Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; trace the text’s explanation or depiction of a complex process, phenomenon, or concept; provide an accurate summary of the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.910.RST.1.3 (Archived) | Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks, attending to special cases or exceptions defined in the text. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.910.RST.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 9–10 texts and topics. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.910.RST.2.5 (Archived) | Analyze the structure of the relationships among concepts in a text, including relationships among key terms (e.g., force, friction, reaction force, energy). Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.910.RST.2.6 (Archived) | Analyze the author’s purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text, defining the question the author seeks to address. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
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LAFS.910.RST.3.7 (Archived) | Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.910.RST.3.8 (Archived) | Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author’s claim or a recommendation for solving a scientific or technical problem. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.910.RST.3.9 (Archived) | Compare and contrast findings presented in a text to those from other sources (including their own experiments), noting when the findings support or contradict previous explanations or accounts. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
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LAFS.910.RST.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 9–10 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
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LAFS.910.WHST.1.1 (Archived) | Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.
Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.910.WHST.1.2 (Archived) | Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning |
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LAFS.910.WHST.2.4 (Archived) | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.910.WHST.2.5 (Archived) | Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.910.WHST.2.6 (Archived) | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
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LAFS.910.WHST.3.7 (Archived) | Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.910.WHST.3.8 (Archived) | Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.910.WHST.3.9 (Archived) | Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
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LAFS.910.WHST.4.10 (Archived) | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
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LAFS.1112.RL.1.1 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.RL.1.2 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.RL.1.3 (Archived) | 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). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.RL.2.4 (Archived) | 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. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.) Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.RL.2.5 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.RL.2.6 (Archived) | Analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.RL.3.7 (Archived) | 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. (Include at least one play by Shakespeare and one play by an American dramatist.) Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.RL.3.9 (Archived) | Demonstrate knowledge of eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century foundational works of American literature, including how two or more texts from the same period treat similar themes or topics. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.RL.4.10 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1112.W.1.1 (Archived) | Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.W.1.2 (Archived) | Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.W.1.3 (Archived) | Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.W.2.4 (Archived) | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.) Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.W.2.5 (Archived) | Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.W.2.6 (Archived) | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1112.W.3.7 (Archived) | Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1112.W.3.8 (Archived) | Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1112.W.3.9 (Archived) | Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.W.4.10 (Archived) | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1112.SL.1.1 (Archived) | Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 11–12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.SL.1.2 (Archived) | Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) in order to make informed decisions and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.SL.1.3 (Archived) | Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.SL.2.4 (Archived) | Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning, alternative or opposing perspectives are addressed, and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and a range of formal and informal tasks. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.SL.2.5 (Archived) | Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.SL.2.6 (Archived) | Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating a command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1112.RI.1.1 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.RI.1.2 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.RI.1.3 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.RI.2.4 (Archived) | 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). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.RI.2.5 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.RI.2.6 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.RI.3.7 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.1112.RI.3.8 (Archived) | Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in 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). Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.RI.3.9 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.RI.4.10 (Archived) | 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. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1112.RH.1.1 (Archived) | Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.1112.RH.1.2 (Archived) | Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.1112.RH.1.3 (Archived) | Evaluate various explanations for actions or events and determine which explanation best accords with textual evidence, acknowledging where the text leaves matters uncertain. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1112.RH.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including analyzing how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10). Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.1112.RH.2.5 (Archived) | Analyze in detail how a complex primary source is structured, including how key sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text contribute to the whole. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.1112.RH.2.6 (Archived) | Evaluate authors’ differing points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing the authors’ claims, reasoning, and evidence. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1112.RH.3.7 (Archived) | Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.1112.RH.3.8 (Archived) | Evaluate an author’s premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.1112.RH.3.9 (Archived) | Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1112.RH.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 11–CCR text complexity band independently and proficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
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LAFS.1112.L.1.1 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.L.1.2 (Archived) | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1112.L.2.3 (Archived) | Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.L.3.4 (Archived) | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 11–12 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1112.L.3.5 (Archived) | Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
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LAFS.1112.L.3.6 (Archived) | Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
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LAFS.1112.RST.1.1 (Archived) | Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to important distinctions the author makes and to any gaps or inconsistencies in the account. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.1112.RST.1.2 (Archived) | Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; summarize complex concepts, processes, or information presented in a text by paraphrasing them in simpler but still accurate terms. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
LAFS.1112.RST.1.3 (Archived) | Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks; analyze the specific results based on explanations in the text. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
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LAFS.1112.RST.2.4 (Archived) | Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 11–12 texts and topics. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.1112.RST.2.5 (Archived) | Analyze how the text structures information or ideas into categories or hierarchies, demonstrating understanding of the information or ideas. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.1112.RST.2.6 (Archived) | Analyze the author’s purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text, identifying important issues that remain unresolved. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1112.RST.3.7 (Archived) | Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., quantitative data, video, multimedia) in order to address a question or solve a problem. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.1112.RST.3.8 (Archived) | Evaluate the hypotheses, data, analysis, and conclusions in a science or technical text, verifying the data when possible and corroborating or challenging conclusions with other sources of information. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.1112.RST.3.9 (Archived) | Synthesize information from a range of sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a coherent understanding of a process, phenomenon, or concept, resolving conflicting information when possible. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1112.RST.4.10 (Archived) | By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 11–12 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1112.WHST.1.1 (Archived) | Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.
Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.1112.WHST.1.2 (Archived) | Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1112.WHST.2.4 (Archived) | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.1112.WHST.2.5 (Archived) | Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.1112.WHST.2.6 (Archived) | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information. Content Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1112.WHST.3.7 (Archived) | Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.1112.WHST.3.8 (Archived) | Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the specific task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation. Content Complexity: Level 4: Extended Thinking &Complex Reasoning |
LAFS.1112.WHST.3.9 (Archived) | Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
STANDARD CODE | STANDARD |
LAFS.1112.WHST.4.10 (Archived) | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. Content Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning |
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