OGE.10.RI
Open Global English Standards 2026™ · 9th Grade
Reading: Informational, Argumentative & Disciplinary Texts
Grade9th Grade
SubjectELA
Levelstrand
Child standards (8)
- OGE.10.RI.1Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of informational and disciplinary texts, distinguishing between explicit statements and sophisticated inferences across primary, secondary, scientific, and historical sources.
- OGE.10.RI.2Determine central ideas and trace the development of complex processes, phenomena, or historical arguments; analyze how points are introduced, sequenced, and refined, and provide an accurate, objective summary.
- OGE.10.RI.3Analyze how an author's organizational structure, sentence flow, graphic features, and section formatting develop and refine specific claims, concepts, or procedures in expository and technical texts.
- OGE.10.RI.4Determine an author's point of view, audience, and purpose; analyze how rhetorical strategies, appeals (logos, ethos, pathos), diction, and framing shape reader perception and advance arguments in speeches, essays, and media.
- OGE.10.RI.5Delineate and evaluate arguments and specific claims; assess whether the reasoning is logically valid and evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements, biases, omissions, and logical fallacies (e.g., straw man, red herring, faulty premise, false dilemma).
- OGE.10.RI.6Synthesize and compare across multiple texts, historical documents, scientific reports, and multimodal accounts on the same topic, noting where accounts agree, emphasize distinct perspectives, or contradict one another.
- OGE.10.RI.7Follow complex, multistep technical and scientific instructions precisely, translate quantitative and technical data between visual, mathematical, and verbal formats, and evaluate multimodal and digital text elements.
- OGE.10.RI.8Read, comprehend, and critique complex literary nonfiction, historical documents, and disciplinary texts at the upper-secondary text complexity band independently and proficiently.