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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 8
Strand - Reading Informational Text
Cluster - Key Ideas and Details
[RI.8.2] - Determine a text's central idea(s) and analyze its/their development over the course of the text, including relationships to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of a text.
- Main/central idea
Concept illustrated or position taken by a text as a whole, whether stated explicitly (as in a how-to guide explaining a process or an essay defending a thesis) or conveyed implicitly (as in a novel or collection of short stories illustrating a theme). - Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
- Summary
An account of a text’s main points, disregarding unimportant details and usually employing the same order of events or topics as the source text. Summarizing is a basic reading technique that consolidates and demonstrates understanding of a text’s overall meaning. See Synthesis.
[RI.7.2] -
Determine a text's central idea(s) and analyze its/ their development over the course of a text; provide an objective summary of a text.
[RI.9-10.2] -
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 a text.