Domain-Specific Vocabulary, Technical Terms, and Tone

Cite explicit and inferential textual evidence from informational, scientific, and historical texts to support conclusions and write objective summaries without bias.

Analyze how authors introduce, illustrate, and elaborate on key individuals, scientific procedures, and historical events through various organizational structures.

Determine the meaning of academic, scientific, and figurative vocabulary in informational texts and evaluate how diction establishes authorial tone.

Determine an author's stance and purpose in informational texts, identifying bias, loaded words, subjective phrasing, and selective omission.

Trace and evaluate arguments in informational texts, distinguishing verifiable facts, reasoned judgments, opinions, and unsupported speculation.

Synthesize charts, graphs, diagrams, maps, models, and timelines with written prose to achieve deep informational comprehension.

Compare and contrast how different authors, primary and secondary sources, and media formats portray the same event or scientific phenomenon.