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Note: The Iowa Core Essential Elements are intended only for students with significant cognitive disabilities and who participate in alternate assessments.
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Key Ideas and Details
- Analyze a text to determine its meaning and cite textual evidence to support explicit and implicit understandings. (EE.RL.11-12.1)
- Recount the main events of the text which are related to the theme or central idea. (EE.RL.11-12.2)
- Determine how characters, the setting or events change over the course of the story or drama. (EE.RL.11-12.3)
Craft and Structure
- Determine how words or phrases in a text, including words with multiple meanings and figurative language, impact the meaning. (EE.RL.11-12.4) (DOK 1,2,3)
- Determine how the author’s choice of where to end the story contributes to the meaning. (EE.RL.11-12.5)
- Determine the point of view when there is a difference between the author’s actual language and intended meaning. (EE.RL.11-12.6)
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
- Compare two or more interpretations (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry) of a story, drama, or poem. (EE.RL.11-12.7)
- (Not applicable to literature) (EE.RL.11-12.8)
- Demonstrate explicit understanding of recounted versions of foundational works of American literature. (EE.RL.11-12.9)
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
- Demonstrate understanding while actively engaged in reading or listening to stories, dramas, and poems. (EE.RL.11-12.10)
Reading Standards for Informational Text
Key Ideas and Details
- Analyze a text to determine its meaning and cite textual evidence to support explicit and implicit understanding. (EE.RI.11-12.1)
- Determine the central idea of a text; recount the text. (EE.RI.11-12.2)
- Determine how individuals, ideas, or events change over the course of the text. (EE.RI.11-12.3)
Craft and Structure
- Determine how individuals, ideas, or events change over the course of the text. (EE.RI.11-12.4)
- Determine whether the structure of a text enhances an author’s claim. (EE.RI.11-12.5)
- Determine author’s point of view and compare and contrast it with own point of view. (EE.RI.11-12.6)
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
- Analyze information presented in different media on related topics to answer questions or solve problems. (EE.RI.11-12.7)
- Determine whether the claims and reasoning enhance the author’s argument in an informational text. (EE.RI.11-12.8)
- Compare and contrast arguments made by two different texts on the same topic. (EE.RI.11-12.9)
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
- Demonstrate understanding while actively engaged in reading or listening to literary non-fiction. (EE.RI.11-12.10)
Writing Standards
Text Types and Purposes
- Write arguments to support claims.
- Write an argument to support a claim that results from studying a topic or reading a text.
- Support claims with reasons and evidence drawn from text.
- Not applicable.
- Not applicable.
- Not applicable. (EE.W.11-12.1)
- Write to share information supported by details.
- Introduce a topic clearly and write an informative or explanatory text that conveys ideas, concepts, and information including visual, tactual, or multimedia information as appropriate.
- Develop the topic with relevant facts, details, or quotes.
- Use complete, simple sentences, as well as compound and other complex sentences as appropriate.
- Not applicable.
- Provide a closing or concluding statement. (EE.W.11-12.2)
- Write about events or personal experiences.
- Write a narrative about a problem, situation, or observation including at least one character, details, and clearly sequenced events.
- Not applicable.
- Organize the events in the narrative using temporal words to signal order and add cohesion.
- Use descriptive words and phrases to convey a vivid picture of experiences, events, setting, or characters.
- Provide a closing. (EE.W.11-12.3)
Production and Distribution of Writing
- Produce writing that is appropriate to a particular task, purpose, and audience. (EE.W.11-12.4)
- Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, and rewriting. (EE.W.11-12.5)
- Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish and update an individual or shared writing project. (EE.W.11-12.6)
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
- Conduct research projects to answer questions posed by self and others using multiple sources of information. (EE.W.11-12.7)
- Write answers to research questions by selecting relevant information from multiple resources. (EE.W.11-12.8)
- Cite evidence from literary or informational texts.
- Apply Grades 11-12 Essential Elements for Reading Standards to literature (e.g., “Compare and contrast elements of American literature to other literary works, self, or one’s world. [Compare themes, topics, locations, context, and point of view].”).
- Apply Grades 11-12 Essential Elements for Reading Standards to informational texts (eg., “Compare and contrast reasoning and arguments used in one's work with those used in seminal U.S. texts.”). (EE.W.11-12.9)
Range of Writing
- Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. (EE.W.11-12.10)
Speaking and Listening Standards
Comprehension and Collaboration
- Engage in collaborative discussions.
- Prepare for discussions by collecting information on the topic.
- Work with peers to set rules and goals for discussions.
- Ask and answer questions to verify or clarify own ideas and understandings during a discussion.
- Respond to agreements and disagreements in a discussion. (EE.SL.11-12.1)
- Determine the credibility and accuracy of information presented across diverse media or formats. (EE.SL.11-12.2)
- Determine whether the claims and reasoning enhance the speaker’s argument on a topic. (EE.SL.11-12.3)
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
- Present an argument on a topic using an organization appropriate to the purpose, audience, and task. (EE.SL.11-12.4)
- Use digital media strategically (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to support understanding and add interest. (EE.SL.11-12.5)
- Adapt communication to a variety of contexts and tasks using complete sentences when indicated or appropriate. (EE.SL.11- 12.6)
Language Standards
Conventions of Standard English
- Demonstrate standard English grammar and usage when communicating.
- Use conventions of standard English when needed.
- Use digital, electronic, and other resources and tools to improve uses of language as needed. (EE.L.11-12.1)
- Demonstrate understanding of conventions of standard English.
- Demonstrate conventions of standard English including capitalization, ending punctuation, and spelling when writing.
- Spell most single-syllable words correctly and apply knowledge of word chunks in spelling longer words. (EE.L.11-12.2)
Knowledge of Language
- Use language to achieve desired outcomes when communicating.
- Vary sentence structure using a variety of simple and compound sentence structures. (EE.L.11-12.3)
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
- Demonstrate knowledge of word meanings.
- Use context to determine the meaning of unknown words.
- Identify and use root words and the words that result when affixes are added or removed.
- Not applicable.
- Consult reference materials (dictionaries, online vocabulary supports) to clarify the meaning of unfamiliar words encountered when reading. (EE.L.11-12.4)
- Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and use.
- Interpret simple figures of speech encountered while reading or listening.
- Not applicable. (EE.L.11-12.5)
- Use general academic and domain-specific words and phrases across contexts. (EE.L.11-12.6)
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