CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.10
The Standard
By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 11—CCR text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 6—12
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students independently read demanding history and social studies texts, including primary and secondary sources. They determine central ideas, track evidence and reasoning, and handle complex language and structure.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can read a challenging primary or secondary source without teacher guidance. They identify central ideas, follow the reasoning, interpret key terms, and support conclusions with accurate evidence.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat every sentence as equally important and miss the central claim. They may accept an author’s account as neutral, skip unfamiliar terms, or lose meaning in long sentences.
How to Assess It
- Give students a one-page historical excerpt and ask them to state the central claim, cite two supporting details, and explain one challenging sentence.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students a printed speech to annotate independently, marking claims, evidence, unfamiliar terms, and shifts in the author’s reasoning.
Ask students to write: Which sentence best reveals the author’s viewpoint, and what words make that viewpoint clear?
Run a timed evidence hunt where students locate quotations supporting three claims, then compare answers and correct weak matches.
Have students read two news analyses of the same policy issue and explain how each source frames the facts differently.
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