Reading+Standards+for+Nonfiction+in+Social+Studies

__**Overall Objectives:**__ __**Reading Standards for Nonfiction Text in Social Studies:**__ __**Key Ideas and Details:**__ __**Craft and Structure:**__ __**Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:**__ __**Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:**__
 * Students must be able to:**
 * analyze, evaluate, and differentiate primary and secondary sources.
 * gain knowledge from challenging texts that often use elaborate diagrams and data to convey information and illustrate concepts.
 * read challenging informational text independently and confidently.
 * Students must be able to:**
 * cite evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
 * determine main ideas from a primary or secondary source omitting prior knowledge or opinions.
 * identify key steps in a text's description of a process of something related to history (how a bill becomes a law, how interest rates are raised/lowered).
 * Students must be able to:**
 * determine the meaning of words/phrases as they are used in the text especially words related to social studies.
 * describe how a text presents information (sequence, compare/contrast, causally).
 * identify pieces from the text that show the author's point of view and/or author's purpose.
 * Students must be able to:**
 * integrate visual informaton (charts, graphs, photographs, videos, maps) with other information in print and digital text.
 * identify fact/opinion and reasoned judgment in a text.
 * distinguish and analyze between primary and secondary sources.
 * Studnets must be able to:**
 * read and comprehend complex grade level texts independently and proficiently by the end of eighth grade.