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Common Core State Standards
Key Ideas and Details
Emphasis on what the text is
COMMUNICATING
1.
2.
3.
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.
Determine central ideas or themes of a text
and analyze their development; summarize
the key supporting details and ideas.
Analyze how and why individuals, events,
or ideas develop and interact over the
course of a text.
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Key Ideas & Details Standard 1
History
Science
ELA
1. Cite specific
1. Cite specific
1. Cite strong and
textual evidence
textual evidence
thorough textual
to support
to support
evidence to
analysis of
analysis of
support analysis
primary and
science and
of what the text
secondary
technical texts,
says explicitly as
sources,
attending to the
well as inferences
attending to such
precise details of
drawn from the
features as the
explanations or
text.
date and origin of
descriptions.
the information.
Key Ideas & Details Standard 2
History
Science
ELA
2. Determine the
2. Determine the
2. Determine a theme
central ideas or
central ideas or
or central idea of a
information of a
conclusions of a
text and analyze in
primary source;
text; trace the
detail its
provide an
text’s
development over
accurate
explanation or
the course of the
summary of how
depiction of a
text, including how
key events or
complex
it emerges and is
ideas develop
process,
shaped and refined
over the course
phenomenon, or
by specific details;
of the text.
concept;
provide an
provide an
objective summary
accurate
of the text.
summary of the
text.
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Key Ideas & Details Standard 3
History
Science
ELA
3. Analyze in detail a 3. Follow precisely a 3. Analyze how
series of events
complex multistep
complex
described in a
procedure when
characters (e.g.,
text; determine
carrying out
those with multiple
whether earlier
experiments,
or conflicting
events caused
taking
motivations)
later ones or
measurements, or
develop over the
simply preceded
performing
course of a text,
them.
technical tasks,
interact with other
attending to
characters, and
special cases or
advance the plot
exceptions
or develop the
defined in the text.
theme.
Craft and Structure
Emphasis on how a text
communicates MEANING
4.
5.
6.
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.
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.
Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the
content and style of a text.
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Craft and Structure Standard 4
History
Science
ELA
4. Determine the
4. Determine the
4. Determine the
meaning of words
meaning of symbols,
meaning of words
and phrases as they
key terms, and other
and phrases as they
are used in a text,
domain-specific
are used in the text,
including analyzing
words and phrases
including figurative
how an author uses
as they are used in a
and connotative
and refines the
specific scientific or
meanings; analyze
meaning of a key
technical context
the cumulative
term over the course
relevant to grades
impact of specific
of a text (e.g., how
11-12 texts and
word choices on
Madison defines
topics.
meaning and tone
faction in Federalist
(e.g., how the
No. 10).
language evokes a
sense of time and
place; how it sets a
formal or informal
tone.
Craft and Structure
History
Standard 5
Science
5. Analyze in detail
5. Analyze how the
how a complex
text structures
primary source is
information or
structured,
ideas into
including how key
categories or
sentences,
hierarchies,
paragraphs, and
demonstrating
larger portions of
understanding of
the text contribute
the information or
to the whole.
ideas.
ELA
5. 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.
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Craft and Structure
History
6. Evaluate authors’
differing points of
view on the same
historical event or
issue by assessing
the authors’
claims, reasoning,
and evidence.
Science
6. 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.
Standard 6
ELA
6. 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.
Integration of Knowledge & Ideas
Emphasis on how meaning of the text
and how texts are CONNECTED
7.
8.
9.
Integrate and evaluate content presented in
diverse formats and media, including visually
and quantitatively, as well as in words.
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.
Analyze how two or more texts address
similar themes or topics in order to build
knowledge or to compare the approaches
the authors take.
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Integration of Knowledge & Ideas
Standard 7
History
Science
ELA
7. Integrate and
evaluate multiple
sources of
information
presented in diverse
formats and media
(e.g., visually,
quantitatively, as
well as in words) in
order or address a
question or solve a
problem.
7. 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.
7. 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)
Integration of Knowledge & Ideas
Standard 8
History
Science
8. Evaluate an author’s
8. Evaluate the hypotheses,
premises, claims, and
data, analysis, and
evidence by corroborating
conclusions in a science or
or challenging them with
technical text, verifying the
other information.
data when possible and
corroborating or
challenging conclusions
with other sources of
information.
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Integration of Knowledge & Ideas
Standard 9
History
9. Integrate
information from
diverse sources,
both primary and
secondary, into a
coherent
understanding of
an idea or event,
noting
discrepancies
among sources.
Science
ELA
9. Synthesize
7. Analyze how an
information from a
author draws on
range of sources
and transforms
(e.g., texts,
source materials in
experiments,
a specific work
simulations) into a
(e.g., how
coherent
Shakespeare
understanding of a
treats a theme or
process,
topic from Ovid or
phenomenon, or
the Bible or how a
concept, resolving
later author draws
conflicting
on a play by
information when
Shakespeare).
possible.
Range of Reading
& Level of Text Complexity
Emphasis on CHALLENGE of the text
10.
Read and comprehend complex literary
and informational texts independently and
proficiently.
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