Grade 3 Reading

CSAP Power Benchmarks

1.c

Identifying main idea, and finding information to support particular ideas. 12 CR, 55 MC

1.d

Drawing inferences 19 CR, 33 MC

1.g

Using word recognition skills & resources for comprehension. 3 CR, 36 MC

1.b

Summarizing text passages.12 CR, 3 MC

Grade 4 Reading

CSAP Skills

6.b

• Given distracting lesser details identify the main setting which supports plot, character development, problem, and solution. 1 2005 MC Proficient
• Identify changes in character, setting, plot, problem, and solution over the course of the story and explain using details from the story
• Identify setting, plot, character, problem, and solution.
• Identify setting, plot, character, problem, and solution (describe these using words not in the story).
• Identify setting, plot, character, problem, and solution placed in the order stated within the story.

1.c

• Identify  irrelevant details vs. supporting details for one main idea.
• Identify and communicate supporting details which support a given main idea.
• Identify and communicate supporting details which support a given particular idea.
• Identify requested details supporting a main idea.
• Identify supporting details and main idea.
• Using supporting details, identify the most complete main idea of a passage from a list of choices.

4.d

• Identify supporting details and main idea.
• Make predictions and draw conclusions about characteristics of a character in stories.
• Make predictions and draw conclusions about more complex characteristics of a character in stories.
• Make predictions and draw conclusions about stories and explain using details from the story.
• Make predictions and draw conclusions about stories.
• Make predictions and draw conclusions about the setting using details within a passage.
• Make predictions; draw conclusions (character's feelings).
• Make predictions, draw conclusions and explain (character's feelings) using details from the passage.
• Make predictions, draw conclusions and explain (character's feelings) using details in the passage resulting from the events in the plot.

1.h

• Referencing context cues, use word recognition skills to differentiate compound words from more complex words (for example, words with roots, prefixes, suffixes) for comprehension of text.
• Referencing context cues, use word recognition skills to differentiate compound words from word parts (for example, roots, prefixes, suffixes of words) for comprehension.
• Use word recognition skills (phonics, context clues, roots, prefixes and suffixes of words) for comprehending word meaning.
• Use word recognition skills and resources (for example, phonics, context clues, picture clues, reference guides, roots, prefixes, suffixes of words) for comprehension.

5.d

• Sort information as it relates to a specific topic or purpose.

5.a

• State the purpose of organizational features of printed text when locating information.
• Use organizational features of printed text (a map) to locate information.
• Use organizational features of printed text (a table) to locate information. 
• Use organizational features of printed text (a table) to locate the relationship between pieces of information.
• Use organizational features of printed text for example, alphabetizing, to locate information.
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information (alphabetizing)
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information (captions) and provide examples from the passage for the purpose of these organizational features.
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information (dictionary skills). 
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information (simple dictionary use).
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information.
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information:  index.
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information: alphabetizing.
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information: Table of Contents.

Grade 5 Reading

CSAP Skills

6.b

• Communicate the importance of a specific setting for an article (nonfiction text) and support using implied information from the text.
• Communicate the importance of a specific setting for an article (nonfiction text) and support using stated details from the text.
• Identify a simple problem caused by an event within a story (leading to problem-solution) and possible results using details within the passage.
• Identify a simple problem caused by an event within a story (leading to problem-solution).
• Identify a word which describes the qualities of a character and provide details from the passage to support that description.
• Identify a word which describes the qualities of a character.
• Identify changes in a character over the course of the story using details from the setting, plot, problem and solution to support these changes.
• Identify changes in a character over the course of the story.
• Identify character thoughts and reasons for actions using details from the setting, plot, problem and solution to support these changes.
• Identify characteristics of character using setting, problem/conflict/solution as details to explain these characteristics.
• Identify characteristics of character, setting, problem/conflict or solution.
• Identify characters, setting, problem/conflict, action/plot/events, resolution/solution, theme, and sequence in literature.
• Identify characters, setting, problem/conflict, action/plot/events, resolution/solution, theme, and sequence in literature. Infer using contextual clues.
• Identify setting, plot, character, problem, and solution indirectly stated within the story.
• Identify setting, plot, character, problem, and solution stated within the story.
• Identify setting, plot, character, problem, and solution.
• Identify unstated characteristics of character, setting, plot,  problem, and solution through the course of the poem.

4.d

• Make predictions and draw conclusions about the qualities of a character from text using actions stated in the nonfiction passage.
• Make predictions and draw conclusions from text about the reasons for a character's words and actions.
• Make predictions and draw conclusions from text in various genre.
• Make predictions and draw conclusions from text in various genre: character's actions.
• Make predictions and draw conclusions from text using implied (unstated) information within a poem.

5.a

• Use organizational features of printed text (for example, page numbering, alphabetizing, glossaries, chapter heading, changes in print, table of contents, indexes, captions) to locate information.
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information.
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information:  appendices.
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information:  asterisks with noted information in another location on the page.
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information:  bold captions.
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information:  illustrations.
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information:  italicized words.
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information:  table of contents.
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information: bold captions.

1.g

• Given a phrase from the poem, identify the meaning of unfamiliar words in context using word recognition skills and context clues within the story.
• Given a statement from the story, identify the meaning of unfamiliar words in context using word recognition skills and context clues within the story.
• Given a supportive phrase from the text, identify the meaning or unfamiliar words in context using word recognition skills and context clues.
• Given an unfamiliar word from the passage, identify the meaning  in context using word recognition skills and context clues within the nonfiction passage.
• Identify the meaning of unfamiliar words in context using word recognition skills and context clues.
• Identify the meaning or unfamiliar words in context using word recognition skills and context clues within a nonfiction text.
• Infer using contextual clues.
• Use word recognition skills and resources (for example, phonics, context clues, picture clues, roots, prefixes, suffixes of words) for comprehending the meaning of a word within the text.

1.c

• Locate and paraphrase more complex supporting details or words which describe a stated main idea.
• Locate and paraphrase simple supporting details or words which describe a stated main idea.
• Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details about a character.
• Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details after referencing information provided in the nonfiction text.
• Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details in fiction.
• Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details in non- fiction.
• Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details: given a list of possible choices, pick the best main idea statement.
• Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details: paraphrase implied supporting information.
• Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details: paraphrase stated supporting information.
• Using supporting details, identify the most complete main idea of a passage from a list of choices.

5.c

• Summarize and organize information about a topic in a time line from references, technical sources, and media.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic in a variety of ways: referencing concrete statements about people in nonfiction text.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic in a variety of ways: referencing implied information about people in nonfiction text.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic in an outline from references, technical sources, and media.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic, sorting stated information using references made in a passage.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic: given a generalized topic statement, locate and communicate supporting information.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic: given supporting ideas, communicate a generalized topic statement.

6.c

• Use knowledge of literary techniques and terminology (figurative language) to understand text.
• Use knowledge of literary techniques and terminology (figurative language) to understand the text.
• Use knowledge of literary techniques and terminology (for example, figurative language) to understand poetic text.
• Use knowledge of literary techniques and terminology (foreshadowing) to understand text.
• Use knowledge of literary techniques and terminology (personification) to understand poetic text and identify examples within a text.
• Use new vocabulary from literature in another context.

Grade 6 Reading

CSAP Skills

6.b

• Communicate the importance of a specific setting for an article (nonfiction text) and support using implied information from the text.
• Communicate the importance of a specific setting for an article (nonfiction text) and support using stated details from the text.
• Given a list of choices, identify the most significant conflict a character experiences in a passage.
• Given a stated characteristic, use supporting information from the story to explain the qualities of that characteristic.
• Identify characters in literature. (CR)
• Identify characters, setting, problem/conflict, action/plot/events, resolution/solution, theme, and sequence in literature.
• Identify characters, setting, problem/conflict, action/plot/events, resolution/solution: event and character feelings.
• Identify characters, setting, problem/conflict, action/plot/events, resolution/solution: event and resulting character feelings.
• Identify events within the passage which have an effect on the character's feelings.
• Identify problem/conflict in literature.
• Identify setting in literature.
• Summarize and synthesize fiction and non-fiction.
• Use supporting information from the story to describe character feelings.
• Using a chart, identify a major problem and a matching resolution within the passage.
• Using a chart, identify a more complex problem and the resolution within the passage.
• Using a chart, identify a second major problem and a matching resolution within the passage.

1.g

• Given a statement from an article which provides an unfamiliar word some context, identify a sentence which uses the same word correctly.
• Given a statement from the story to provide context, identify the meaning of the word.
• Given a statement from the story, identify the meaning of an unfamiliar word in context using word recognition skills and context clues within the nonfiction passage.
• Given a statement from the story, identify the meaning of an unfamiliar word in context using word recognition skills and context clues within the story.
• Given a statement from the story, identify the meaning of the phrase.
• Given a statement from the story, identify the meaning of the word.
• Given a statement from the story, identify the meaning of unfamiliar words in context using word recognition skills and context clues within the story.
• Given a supportive phrase from the text, identify the meaning or unfamiliar words in context using word recognition skills and context clues.
• Identify the meaning of an unfamiliar word out of context using word part definitions and historical references.
• Identify the meaning of multiple meaning words in context using word recognition skills and context clues.
• Identify the meaning of unfamiliar words in context using word recognition skills and context clues.
• Identify the meaning or unfamiliar words in context using word recognition skills and context clues within a nonfiction text.
• Use knowledge of literary techniques and literary terminology (figurative language) to understand the text.

1.c

• Given a stated idea, locate and paraphrase the key relevant details in nonfiction text which support the stated idea.
• Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details in fiction.
• Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details in nonfiction.
• Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details in non-fiction.
• Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details: describe adjectives for a character from the poem using supportive details from the poem.
• Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details: paraphrase implied supporting information.
• Using supporting details, identify the most complete main idea of a passage from a list of choices.

5.c

• Summarize and organize information about a topic in a graphic organizer from references, technical sources, and media.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic in a time line from references, technical sources, and media.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic in a timeline identifying stated information provided in the text.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic in a timeline referencing and paraphrasing more complex information provided in the text.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic in a timeline referencing complex information provided in the text.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic in a variety of ways graphic organizer from references, technical sources, and media.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic, sorting stated information using references made in a passage.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic: given a generalized topic statement, locate and communicate supporting information.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic: given supporting ideas, communicate a generalized topic statement.

4.d

• Explain the text’s main point and use relevant details to support the explanation.
• Explain the text's main point and use relevant details to support the explanation.
• Given a list of possible choices, identify the most accurate conclusion possible to be had using the information provided in the nonfiction text.
• Make predictions and draw conclusions from text in various genre.
• Make predictions and draw conclusions from text in various genre: character's actions.

1.d

• Draw inferences using contextual clues about the characteristics of people referred to in a text.
• Drawing inferences using contextual clues about a character's actions and feelings.
• Infer the purpose of an event within the passage using information throughout the passage.
• Infer using information in a variety of texts and genre.
• Infer using information in a variety of texts and genre: character feelings.
• Infer using information in a variety of texts and genre: complex details supporting character feelings.
• Infer using information in a variety of texts and genre: details supporting character feelings

6.c

• Use knowledge of literary techniques (expressions of sound) and literary terminology to understand and explain the purpose for these techniques within the text  (2005, A, CR)
• Use knowledge of literary techniques (expressions of sound) and literary terminology to understand the text (2005, P. CR)
• Use knowledge of literary techniques and literary terminology (expressions of sound) to understand the text. (2005, PP, MC)
• Use knowledge of literary techniques and literary terminology (figurative language) to understand the text.
• Use knowledge of literary techniques and literary terminology (for example, alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia) to understand the text. (2005, MC, 1A,1P)
• Use knowledge of literary techniques and literary terminology (for example, alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration) to understand the text. (2005, MC, A)
• Use knowledge of literary techniques and literary terminology (scene) to understand the text.
• Use knowledge of literary techniques and literary terminology to understand the text.
• Use knowledge of literary techniques and literary terminology to understand the text: descriptive characteristics and qualities of personification.
• Use knowledge of literary techniques and literary terminology to understand the text: dialogue.

Grade 7 Reading

CSAP Skills

4.d

• Given a list of choices, select a conclusion that may be drawn from a particular idea taken from a text.
• Given a list of possible choices, identify the most accurate conclusion possible to be had using the information provided in the nonfiction text.
• Make predictions and draw conclusions about future events given the details, tone, and mood of a poem.
• Make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze an argument  or problem presented within  a story.
• Make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze nonfiction text.
• Make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze nonfiction text: choose the most appropriate audience for the information provided in the text.
• Make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze text within a stanza of a poem: identify the poet's conclusion and use information from the poem to support.
• Make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze text within a stanza of a poem: identify the poet's conclusion.
• Make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze text:  character's motives, actions and feelings.
• Make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze text: qualities of character.
• Make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze text: support qualities of character using details from the text.
• Make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze what they read, hear, and view.

1.i

• Given a list of word choices, use word recognition skills and context to identify the meaning of an unfamiliar word used in a passage.
• Given a statement from the story to provide context, identify the meaning of the word.
• Given a statement from the story, identify the meaning of an unfamiliar word in context using context clues within the story.
• Given a statement from the story, identify the meaning of an unfamiliar word in context using word recognition skills and context clues within the nonfiction passage.
• Given lines from a stanza to provide context, identify the meaning of a phrase.
• Given the context within the poem, identify the meaning of a word used in the poem.
• Use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

6.b

• Identify an example of literary terminology:  identify change character's attitudes and beliefs from the beginning to the end of the passage.
• Identify an example of literary terminology: character development.
• Identify an example of literary terminology: problem/conflict and plot resolution.
• Identify an example of literary terminology: symbolism, onomatopoeia, dialect, personification.
• Identify an example of literary terminology: tone.
• Use and identify an example of literary terminology: alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, flashback.
• Use and identify an example of literary terminology: rhyme, repetition, simile, metaphor.
• Use literary terminology (for example setting, conflict, plot resolution, dialect, and point of view).
• Use literary terminology accurately: tone.
• Use literary terminology:  analyze and communicate reasons for change in character's attitudes and beliefs from the beginning to the end of the passage.
• Use literary terminology: conflict.
• Use literary terminology: identify character in literature.

5.a

• Locate others' ideas, images, or information in a bibliography.
• Use organizational features of printed text (for example, chapter preview and summaries, prefaces, annotations, bold face print, and appendices).
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information about the origination of the text (e.g. language, country, source, author, publisher, editor, etc.).
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information.
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information: purposes for italics.
• Use organizational features of printed text to locate information: using a dictionary (definitions of words, alphabetizing, parts of speech, spellings, pronunciations, and origins of words).
• Use organizational features of printed text.
• Use organizational features of printed text:  capital letters.
• Use organizational features of printed text: annotations.
• Use organizational features of printed text: double entries in a dictionary.
• Use organizational features of printed text: glossary.
• Use organizational features of printed text: map reading.
• Use organizational features of printed text: subheadings.

4.a

• Distinguish between fact and opinion.
• Given a choice of options, recognize a statement which best expresses an author's or speaker's point of view and purpose.
• Given a list of descriptive words, identify the speaker or poet's point of view and attitude (reference the details in the poem).
• Given a list of possible choices, determine the most accurate statement of author's purpose for writing a nonfiction article.
• Given options containing details from the story, determine the most accurate statement which expresses the author's purpose for writing a text passage (using details in a passage).
• Recognize an author’s or speaker’s point of view and purpose.
• Recognize an author's point of view: given a choice of statements containing distracting details from the story, choose a statement the author would most likely agree with.

6.d

• Read and respond to literature that represents points of view from places, people, and events that are familiar and unfamiliar: communicate an unstated and more complex main idea of a stanza within a poem from another culture.

6.c

• Apply knowledge of alliteration to understand text.
• Apply knowledge of literary techniques (figurative language) to understand text.
• Apply knowledge of literary techniques (metaphor) to understand text.
• Apply knowledge of literary techniques to understand text.
• Apply knowledge of metaphor to understand text.
• Use knowledge of literary techniques and literary terminology (for example, alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia) to understand the text.
• Use knowledge of literary techniques and literary terminology (for example, alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration) to understand the text.
• Use knowledge of literary techniques and literary terminology (for example, alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration) to understand the text.

1.f

• Find and support in the text for main ideas.
• Find support in the text for main ideas.
• Given a stated idea, locate and paraphrase the key relevant details in nonfiction text which support the stated idea.
• Identify details from the text about a character's actions which supports the given main idea of the story.
• Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details: describe adjectives for a character from the poem using supportive details from the poem.

Grade 8 Reading

CSAP Skills

4.d

• Analyze text to make predictions and draw conclusions about a character's qualities using details from the story.
• Analyze text to make predictions and draw conclusions identifying subtle similarities and differences between poetic objects and characters.
• Analyze text to make predictions and draw conclusions using details from the text.
• Analyze text to make predictions and draw conclusions.
• Analyze text to make predictions and draw conclusions:  character thoughts and feelings.
• Analyze text to make predictions and draw conclusions: character's mood.
• Analyze text to make predictions and draw conclusions: identify the voice of the poem.
• Analyze text to make predictions and draw conclusions: stated causes for character actions.
• Analyze text to make predictions and draw conclusions: support predictions and conclusions using additional and more complex details from the story.
• Analyze text to make predictions and draw conclusions: support predictions and conclusions using additional and more complex details from the story.
• Analyze text to make predictions and draw conclusions: support predictions and conclusions using details from the story.
• Make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze an argument  or problem presented within  a story.
• Make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze nonfiction text.
• Make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze text: qualities of character.
• Make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze text: support qualities of character using details from the text.

1.g

• Given a statement from the story to provide context, identify and apply the meaning of a word to the characteristics of an object in the nonfiction text.
• Given a statement from the story to provide context, identify the meaning of a phrase.
• Given a statement from the story to provide context, identify the meaning of a word.
• Given a statement from the story, identify the meaning of an unfamiliar word in context using word recognition skills and context clues.
• Identify the meaning of unfamiliar words in context using word recognition skills and context clues
• Identify the meaning of unfamiliar words in context using word recognition skills and context clues.

6.d

• Apply knowledge of literary techniques (metaphor) to understand text.
• Given a statement from the story with an example of figurative language being used in a phrase, identify the meaning of the phrase.
• Identify an example of literary terminology: symbolism, onomatopoeia, dialect, personification.
• Understand how figurative language (metaphor) supports meaning in a given text.
• Understand how figurative language (simile) supports meaning in a given text.
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given context.
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given context: symbolism.
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given poetic text: given a group of phrases from the poem, identify the type of figurative language being used.
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given poetic text: identify poetic technique for developing meaning.
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given text.
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given text: alliteration.
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given text: identify a statement from the story which exemplifies a given type of figurative language.
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given text: identify the meaning of a phrase from the story containing figurative language.
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given text: identify the meaning of figurative language a character uses in dialogue.
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given text: metaphor
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given text: name the type of figurative language used in a given sentence from the story.
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given text: personification.
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given text: symbolism

1.c

• Analyze main idea and supporting details in a variety of text and genre.
• Determine what is essential vs. non-essential information in nonfiction text.
• Given a list of possible choices, identify the most accurate statement of  main idea of essential message using the information provided in the nonfiction text.
• Given a statement of main idea, identify further details to support that idea.
• Given a statement of main idea, identify one stated detail to support that idea.
• Given the main idea or essential message in a text, locate and communicate a stated example from the text to support this message.
• Given the main idea or essential message in a text, provide examples from the text to support this message which may be inferred or implied.
• Identify the organization and composition of nonfiction text which best supports the identification of the main idea or essential message.

6.b

• Apply knowledge of literary techniques to understand text.
• Apply literary terminology (setting) and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques (alliteration)  to understand text.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques (personification) to understand text.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques (simile) to understand text.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: identify details of setting.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: identify subtle details of setting.
• Apply understanding of literary techniques to explain the purpose for its use in the poem in developing meaning.
• Given a stanza from a poem, identify the meaning of the literary technique used in the comprehension of the poem.
• Use literary terminology:  analyze and communicate reasons for change in character's attitudes and beliefs from the beginning to the end of the passage.
• Use literary terminology:  identify change character's attitudes and beliefs from the beginning to the end of the passage.

5.c

• Summarize and logically organize information about a topic in a graphic organizer using details given in the passage.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic in a graphic organizer (time line) from a variety of references, technical sources, and media.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic in a graphic organizer from a variety of references, technical sources, and media.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic in a graphic organizer using details given in the passage.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic in an outline: choose a heading for selected informational notes.

Grade 9 Reading

CSAP Skills

6.b

• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques (including, but not limited to, rising action, style, and mood) to understand text: foreshadowing.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques (including, but not limited to, rising action, style, and mood) to understand text: symbolism.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: alliteration.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: foreshadowing.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: identify details of setting.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: identify subtle details of setting.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: irony.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: literal and nonliteral interpretation of words in foreshadowing.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: mood
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: onomatopoeia.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: personification.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: setting.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: simile.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: style.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: symbolism.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: tone.
• Given a statement from the passage, identify the type of literary technique used in the passage using literary terminology.
• Identify and apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: personification.
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given text: identify a statement from the story which exemplifies a given type of figurative language.
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given text: name the type of figurative language used in a given sentence from the story.

1.g

• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: irony.
• Determine meanings of words, including those with multiple meanings, by using context clues (for example, synonyms, comparisons) and structural clues (for example, root words, suffixes, prefixes).
• Determine meanings of words, including those with multiple meanings, by using context clues (for example, synonyms, comparisons) and structural clues (for example, roots, suffixes, prefixes).
• Given a statement from the passage to provide context, identify a phrase which defines the meaning of a word with multiple meanings.
• Given a statement from the passage to provide context, identify a synonym exemplifying the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
• Given a statement from the poem to provide context, identify a synonym exemplifying the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
• Given a statement from the story to provide context, identify the meaning of a phrase.
• Given a statement from the story to provide context, identify the meaning of an unfamiliar word.

4.d

• Analyze a given conclusion of text by choosing from a selection of cause/effect details from the text.
• Analyze a section of text in order to draw a logical conclusion (choosing from a selection of possible conclusions each including distracting details from the text).
• Analyze a text for multiple perspectives represented in a text and draw conclusions regarding the effect of each perspective on the topic of the article using details from the text to support these conclusions.
• Analyze a text for multiple perspectives represented in a text and draw conclusions regarding the effect of each perspective on the topic of the article.
• Analyze a variety of text in order to make predictions and draw conclusions.
• Analyze a variety of text in order to make predictions and draw conclusions: identify reasons for character feelings.
• Analyze text to make predictions and draw conclusions about a character's qualities using details from the story.
• Analyze text to make predictions and draw conclusions: identify the voice of the poem.
• Analyze text to make predictions and draw conclusions: support predictions and conclusions using additional and more complex details from the story.
• Analyze text to make predictions and draw conclusions: support predictions and conclusions using additional and more complex details from the story.
• Determine meanings of words, including those with multiple meanings, by using context clues (for example, synonyms, comparisons) and structural clues (for example, roots, suffixes, prefixes).

4.a

· Create a second statement identifying another author's purpose for writing a text and support with a detail from the text.

· Create a statement identifying an author's purpose for writing a text supported by the text.

· Given options containing details from the story, determine the most accurate statement which expresses the author's purpose for writing a poem (using details in a passage).

· Given options containing details from the story, determine the most accurate statement which expresses the author's purpose for writing a story.

· Given options containing details from the story, determine the most accurate statement which expresses the author's purpose for writing a text.

· Identify an author's purpose and the text's historical/cultural context from information presented in the text.

· Support a statement identifying an author's purpose for writing a text with a detail from the text.

5.d

• Evaluate information for specific needs, validity, credibility, and bias: identify one question which is answered in the article.
• Evaluate information for specific needs, validity, credibility, and bias: identify the classification for this type of text (for example, narrative, poem, expository, bibliography, autobiography, biography, science fiction, historical fiction, etc.).
• Evaluate information for specific needs, validity, credibility, and bias: identify the most appropriate source for requested information.
• Evaluate information from a website for specific needs, validity, credibility, and bias.

1.c

• Analyze main idea and supporting details in a text using details to support the main idea.
• Given a list of possible choices, identify the most accurate statement of  main idea of essential message using the information provided in the nonfiction text.
• Given an essential idea from the text, locate additional and significant details to support this stated idea.
• Given an essential idea from the text, locate significant details to support this stated idea.
• Given options containing details from the story, determine the most accurate statement which expresses the main idea of the text.

Grade 10 Reading

CSAP Skills

6.b

• Apply knowledge of literary terminology.
• Apply knowledge of literary terminology: alliteration.
• Apply knowledge of literary terminology: hyperbole.
• Apply knowledge of literary terminology: metaphor.
• Apply knowledge of literary terminology: mood.
• Apply knowledge of literary terminology: onomatopoeia.
• Apply knowledge of literary terminology: personification.
• Apply knowledge of literary terminology: point of view.
• Apply knowledge of literary terminology: protagonist.
• Apply knowledge of literary terminology: simile.
• Apply knowledge of literary terminology: style.
• Apply knowledge of literary terminology: symbolism.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand poetic text: symbolism in poetry.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand poetic text: tone.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: alliteration.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: character qualities and development.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: character qualities and development.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: flashback.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: historical context.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: identify and communicate examples of metaphor and simile and their meaning in poetic text.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: literal and nonliteral interpretation of words in foreshadowing.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: mood.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: point of view.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: point of view: hyperbole.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: protagonist.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: setting.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: symbolism.
• Apply literary terminology and knowledge of literary techniques to understand text: tone.
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given sentence and support using information from the text.
• Understand how figurative language supports meaning in a given sentence and support using information from the text.

4.d

• Analyze a given conclusion  of text by choosing from a selection of cause/effect details from the text.
• Analyze a poem in order to make predictions and draw conclusions regarding the author's meaning of a comparison drawn within the text.
• Analyze a section of text in order to draw a logical conclusion (choosing from a selection of possible conclusions each including distracting details from the text).
• Analyze a section of text, draw a conclusion and create a statement containing that conclusion which may be supported using details from the text.
• Analyze a text and make predictions: use details within the text regarding future choices a character likely has to make beyond the text.
• Analyze a text for multiple perspectives represented in a text and draw conclusions regarding the effect of each perspective on the topic of the article using details from the text to support these conclusions.
• Analyze a text for multiple perspectives represented in a text and draw conclusions regarding the effect of each perspective on the topic of the article.
• Analyze a variety of text (for example, editorials, political cartoons political cartoons, advertisements, and essays) in order to make predictions and draw conclusions, advertisements, and essays) in order to make predictions and draw conclusions.
• Analyze a variety of text (for example, editorials, political cartoons, advertisements, and essays) in order to make predictions and draw conclusions.
• Analyze a variety of text in order to make predictions and draw conclusions.
• Analyze a variety of text in order to make predictions and draw conclusions: identify reasons for character feelings.
• Given a list of possible choices, identify the most accurate sentence stating what may be concluded from a character's words in a fictional text.
• Support (using details from the text) a statement containing a conclusion reached after analyzing a section of text.

1.f

• Determine meanings of words, including those with multiple meanings, by using context clues (for example, synonyms, comparisons) and structural clues (for example, root words, suffixes, prefixes).
• Determine meanings of words, including those with multiple meanings, by using context clues (for example, synonyms, comparisons) and structural clues (for example, roots, suffixes, prefixes).
• Determine meanings of words, including those with multiple meanings, by using context clues and structural clues.
• Given a phrase from the text to provide context, identify the meaning of a phrase.
• Given a sentence from the text to provide context, identify the meaning of a word.
• Given a statement from the passage to provide context, identify a phrase which defines the meaning of a word with multiple meanings.
• Given a statement from the passage to provide context, identify a synonym exemplifying the meaning of an unfamiliar word.

1.c

• Analyze a given a statement of a main idea from the text, identify and communicate supporting details for that essential idea.
• Analyze a given main idea and identify supporting details
• Analyze a given statement of a main idea from the text, identify and communicate supporting details for that essential idea.
• Analyze main idea and supporting details expository text.
• Analyze main idea in literary text.
• Analyze main ideas, supporting details, sequence of events or procedures, facts and opinions in literary, expository, and technical texts.
• Analyze main in literary text.
• Analyze the text's main idea, create a statement expressing the main idea (to be supported using details from the text).
• Analyze the text's main idea, create a statement expressing the main idea and use relevant, more complex details from the text to support the analysis.
• Given options containing details from the story, determine the most accurate statement which expresses the main idea of the text.

4.a

• Given options containing details from the story, determine the most accurate statement which expresses the author's purpose for writing a text.
• Identify author’s viewpoint, purpose, and historical/cultural context from information presented in the text.
• Identify author's viewpoint, purpose, and historical/cultural context from information presented in the text.
• Identify author's viewpoint, purpose, and historical/cultural context from information presented in the text: purpose for elements of story for the overall story context.

5.c

• Paraphrase, summarize, organize and synthesize information from a variety of sources.
• Summarize and organize information about a topic in a variety of ways from references, technical sources, and media.

5.d

• Evaluate information and resources for specific needs, validity, credibility, and bias: identify where this passage would most likely be found.
• Evaluate information for specific needs, credibility, and bias of source for information.
• Evaluate information for specific needs, validity, credibility, and bias.
• Evaluate information for specific needs, validity, credibility, and bias: identify the best resource for specific information.
• Evaluate information for specific needs, validity, credibility, and bias: methods of providing credible support for an author's opinion.
• Evaluate information from a website for specific needs, validity, credibility, and bias.

6.c

• Given a list of possible choices, identify the most accurate statement of  the theme for a fictional text using the information provided in the text.
• Identify and analyze the theme of a poem and provide support using examples from the poem.
• Read a given text, identify the theme, and provide support from the text.