OGE.12.RI
Open Global English Standards 2026™ · 11th Grade
Reading and Analyzing Informational, Historical, Scientific, and Technical Texts: Critical Inquiry and Disciplinary Literacy
Grade11th Grade
SubjectELA
Levelstrand
Child standards (5)
- OGE.12.RI.1Cite precise textual evidence to support sophisticated analysis of primary and secondary historical documents, scientific explanations, and technical reports, tracing how authors define and refine domain-specific concepts and acknowledging ambiguities, gaps, or inconsistencies.
- OGE.12.RI.2Determine central ideas, premises, hypotheses, and conclusions in complex non-literary texts; accurately summarize and paraphrase intricate processes, historical developments, or technical systems into coherent, structured explanations.
- OGE.12.RI.3Analyze the structural organization, hierarchical categorization, and argumentative trajectory of complex informational texts, evaluating how key sentences, clauses, headings, and data displays contribute to the whole.
- OGE.12.RI.4Critically evaluate authors' differing claims, underlying premises, reasoning, and evidence in historical and scientific texts, determining which explanations best accord with evidence, verifying data across sources, and assessing unresolved issues.
- OGE.12.RI.5Synthesize and integrate complex information presented across diverse formats, media, and quantitative datasets, resolving discrepancies to form a coherent understanding and independently comprehending texts in the grade 11-12 text complexity band.