CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.10
The Standard
By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 6—8 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 grade-level history and social studies texts with steady understanding. They use context, text structure, source details, and reference tools to handle difficult sections.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students read an unfamiliar, grade-level history text without step-by-step teacher support. They explain its main ideas, use details accurately, and apply context or text features when meaning breaks down.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat every unfamiliar word as a reason to stop reading. They may also skim headings, captions, dates, and source information, or confuse finishing a text with understanding it.
How to Assess It
- Give students a one-page history passage and ask them to state the main idea, cite two supporting details, and explain one unfamiliar term.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a short textbook section, sticky notes, and highlighters to mark main ideas, supporting details, unfamiliar terms, and helpful text features.
Ask students to write which reading strategy helped most with a difficult paragraph and support their choice with a specific example.
Run a strategy match game where students pair reading problems, such as an unknown term, with useful responses, such as checking context.
Have students read a local news article about a public issue, then summarize its background and identify details needed to understand the issue.
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