CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.10
The Standard
By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 9—10 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 challenging primary and secondary sources written for grades 9 and 10. They track central ideas, interpret academic language, and use text evidence to explain meaning.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can read an unfamiliar, grade-level history or social studies text without step-by-step teacher support. They accurately summarize it, interpret key vocabulary, and support conclusions with relevant evidence.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat difficult words as the only barrier and miss dense sentences, source bias, or unfamiliar context. They may copy details instead of stating a central idea or making a supported inference.
How to Assess It
- Give students an unfamiliar 500-word history passage and ask them to state the central idea, cite two supporting details, and explain one challenging sentence.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a cut-up historical passage to sequence, then have each student explain how headings, dates, and transitions guided the order.
Ask students to write which paragraph was hardest to understand, what caused the difficulty, and which reading move helped.
Play evidence match by having students pair central-idea cards with supporting quotations from a grade-level history passage.
Have students read a local news report about a public policy issue and summarize its background, claim, and supporting evidence.
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